Alexander Idnurm is an associate professor at the University of Melbourne. He completed his Ph.D. studies at the University of Melbourne. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University Medical Center (North Carolina, USA) from 2002 to 2007 before establishing his independent research program at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. In 2014, he returned to the University of Melbourne. His research is focused on the molecular biology and genetics of fungi. He was elected to the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in 2013. He has more than 130 scientific international papers with an h-index of 40 and more than 5900 citations to his work (Scopus, 8 December 2023).