Prof. Anthony R. Carroll obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Sydney in 1989. He completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Hawaii (1989) and at James Cook University (1990–1993). Then he moved to Griffith University (GU) to head the natural products chemistry group at GU's Natural Product Drug Discovery joint venture collaboration with the multinational pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca (AZ) (1993–2007). When the AZGU collaboration ended in late 2007, he moved to the School of Environment at GU on the Gold Coast, where he took up a traditional, balanced-profile academic position. In 2010, he was appointed Deputy Head of School, a position he held until April 2015. He was promoted to professor in late 2012. He has developed simple chromatography methods to transform highly complex mixtures into simplified fractions amenable to structural analysis using NMR techniques. He has developed rapid 2D NMR fingerprinting methods (HSQC-TOSCY, HSQC, HMBC, and DOSY/HMBC). He has published 180 papers and is a world leader in structure determination. His research interests mainly include (1) infectious disease (prion, bacterial, and protozoan), neurodegenerative disease, and cancer NP drug discovery; (2) mammal, insect, plant, and marine invertebrate chemical ecology; (3) ecotoxicology; and (4) the development of 2D NMR-based metabolomics and cheminformatics techniques to identify unique compounds in complex natural (biota, soil, and water) mixtures.