Simon Meckelnborg has been included in Springer Nature Verlag's "BestMasters 2024" series for his master's thesis "Optimisation of the 2D active grid for aerodynamics experiments". Every year, a number of excellent theses from German-speaking countries are selected by a panel of experts and appear in the publishing programme in the BestMasters series.

Simon remained at the Institute of Physics after graduating and is currently working on his dissertation in the TWiSt working group at ForWind.