PhD Student and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Witten, Germany. Simone is a social anthropologist, originally from Copenhagen. She moved to Germany in 2019 to do a PhD about the use of social robots for people with dementia. During her studies in Denmark, she specialised in anthropology of health with a focus on dementia in nursing homes. She is passionate about undertaking ethnographic research in nursing homes, spending time with the residents and developing close bonds with people with dementia, staff and relatives.