Professor Andrew Turpin joined the board of the Lions Eye Institute in 2025 and joined both the Lions Eye Institute and Curtin University as Chair of Ophthalmic Data in 2023.
Prior to this, he was acting executive director of the research translation hub, Melbourne Connect, during its formation and lead academic on the Petascale Campus Initiative, which built large computational infrastructure to support all research at the University of Melbourne. He was the founding director of the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform.
He holds a PhD in computer science and has published over 200 research papers in both computer and vision science. Prior to his academic roles, he worked in life insurance as an assistant actuary.
