Simon Rössler obtained a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in chemistry from the ETH Zürich in Switzerland, during which time he conducted a research fellowship at Harvard University. He then returned to ETH Zürich to join the group of Erick M. Carreira for his Ph.D. focused on synthesis and catalysis. In 2020, he moved back to Boston to join the groups of Stephen L. Buchwald and Bradley L. Pentleute at MIT as an SNSF postdoctoral fellow. His current research is focused on leveraging transition metals for the development of peptide-based modalities, including peptide-encoded libraries of small molecules as a drug discovery platform.