Dr Tonkin-Hill’s research at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre focuses on the development and application of statistical and computational methods to study the interactions between humans and microbes. Specifically, his group is interested in how microbes evolve within and transmit between immunocompromised cancer patients and the impacts of pharmaceutical and surgical interventions. He has developed several popular computational tools to analyse microbial genomes.

He has a Masters in Probability and Statistics and completed his PhD in Mathematical Genomics and Medicine at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Sanger Institute.