Professor Lachlan Coin is a lead of the Computational Sciences and Genomics cross-cutting discipline at the Doherty Institute. Lachlan studied mathematics and physics at the Australian National University during his undergraduate degree. He obtained his PhD in Bioinformatics from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge in 2005. He then took up a position as Research Council UK research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Imperial College where he investigated the role of genetic variation in complex disease. In 2012, he took up a research group leader position at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland where he was also an ARC Future Fellowship.
