Dr Gerry Tonkin-Hill is a group leader at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute. Their work focuses on the development and application of statistical and computational methods to study the interactions between humans and microbes. Specifically, the group is interested in how microbes evolve within and transmit between people and the impacts of pharmaceutical and surgical interventions. Dr Tonkin-Hill has developed several popular computational tools to infer pathogen population structure, transmission networks and bacterial pangenomes. He completed his PhD in Mathematical Genomics and Medicine at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
