Curriculum vitae

Appointments

2024–
Senior Research Fellow & NHMRC Investigator FellowFlinders University
2022–24
Research Fellow & NHMRC Investigator FellowSouth Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
2018–22
EMBL Australia Postdoctoral FellowSouth Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
2016–18
Postdoctoral ResearcherAPC Microbiome Institute, Ireland

Education

2017
PhDUniversity College Cork, Ireland
2013
MSc BioinformaticsUniversity College Cork
2011
BSc (Hons) MicrobiologyUniversity College Cork

Recognition

2025
World's Top 2% ScientistsStanford University / Elsevier
2025
High Impact Publication AwardSAHMRI, for the institute's highest-impact paper of the year (Nature)
2025
Special Recognition Award for Outstanding ContributionsAustralian Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Society
2025
People's Choice AwardMicrobiome Virtual International Forum
2025
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Mid-Career ResearchersFlinders University
2022
Award for Scientific ExcellenceAPC Microbiome Institute

Selected funding

2026–31
NHMRC Ideas GrantAssociate Investigator
2026–30
NHMRC Ideas GrantAssociate Investigator
2026–28
ARC Discovery ProjectChief Investigator B
2024–29
Women's & Children's Hospital Foundation (Bloom)Chief Investigator F
2024–26
SA Genomics Centre Multi-omics InitiativeChief Investigator A
2023–28
NHMRC Investigator Grant (Emerging Leadership)Chief Investigator A
2021–25
MRFF Emerging Priorities & Consumer-Driven ResearchAssociate Investigator

More than $9M in competitive funding as CI or AI.