Rob has a decade of experience developing and leveraging computational approaches to biological problems from fungal genome assembly to chickpea population genomics. An advocate for teaching and contributing back to the scientific community, he delivers the advanced Nextflow training course and is responsible for provision of scientific support to Seqera customers. He holds a PhD from Curtin University in Western Australia and despite now living on the other side of the world, continues to supervise PhD and masters students in his capacity as adjunct faculty at the University of Western Australia.