Andrew Rohl is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University. He is an expert in the application of supercomputing and computer simulation technologies in computational science, with more than 135 published papers to his name. His background is in computational chemistry, with a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and a postdoc at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. He broadened his computational expertise through transforming iVEC, now the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, from a local enterprise to a national supercomputing facility in Australia, which has housed and operated the fastest supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere on 3 occasions. In 2015, he became the inaugural director of the Curtin Institute for Computation as well as the academic lead in the Cisco-led Innovation Central Perth, located on the Curtin Bentley campus. In 2018, he was awarded AUD 3.9M from the Australian Research Council to lead the Training Centre for Transforming Maintenance through Data Science. In addition to leading this centre, he is also an Associate Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, as well as the chair of its Data Management Committee.