# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kai-simons
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:45:06.324Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kai-simons"
name: "Kai Simons"
slug: "kai-simons"
description: "Kai Simons is a Finnish professor of biochemistry and cell biology and physician, living and working in Germany. He introduced the concept of lipid rafts, and coined the term trans-Golgi network. He is the co-founder and co-organizer of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and European Molecular Biology Organization, and initiated the foundation of Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics."
tagline: "Finnish physician (MD, PhD), biochemist and molecular biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prof_Kai_Simons_2014_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-05-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.86
  momentum:             1.68141592920354
  historical:           6.342837333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.lipotype.com/about-us/"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Simons"
    title: "Kai Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "كاي سيمونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "کای سیمونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Simons"
    title: "Kai Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Simons"
    title: "Kai Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Simons"
    title: "Kai Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Simons"
    title: "Kai Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q880181"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump