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Simon Roux is a staff scientist at the DOE Joint Genome Institute at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he leads the Viral Genomics group studying viruses that infect microbes and their roles in natural ecosystems. His work combines multi'omics, bioinformatics, and experimental approaches to uncover viral diversity, virus–host interactions, and their impacts on microbial communities in environments such as soils and freshwater systems. Roux is also a key contributor to the development of widely used computational tools and data resources for analyzing uncultivated viruses, with a broader goal of understanding how viral activity shape ecosystem function and evolution.