Simon Hardy

Simon Hardy is a Director at AstraZeneca, where they lead Early Chemical Development. They previously held positions including Associate Principal Scientist and Senior Scientist at AstraZeneca, and Senior Research Chemist at Syngenta Crop Protection. Prior to that, Simon was a Chemist at Key Organics and conducted postdoctoral research at The University of Texas at Austin. Simon earned a first-class MChem degree in Chemistry from the University of York and a PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from The University of Manchester.