Simone J. Rochfort received her BSc (Hons) first class and PhD from The University of Melbourne and has worked in academia, government, pharma, and biotech in Canada and Australia. She is a Research Leader of Agriculture Victoria and La Trobe University, located at AgriBio, where she leads the Molecular Phenomics research group (part of Genomic and Cellular Sciences). Her research topics mainly include biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology chemistry.