Bruce is a CSIRO Science Leader based at the Australian National Fish Collection in Hobart, Tasmania. He received his PhD in Zoology in 2006 from the University of Tasmania working on DNA-based methods to study the diet of marine predators. This research contributed to the initial development of eDNA metabarcoding approaches for measuring animal diversity. During post-doctoral fellowships in Canada and Australia his focus shifted to population genomics of fish and Antarctic krill. At CSIRO Bruce continues to lead innovative projects on fish genomics and assessing biodiversity in marine ecosystems using eDNA. He’s had a hard time letting go of his PhD work, so is still involved in a few eDNA diet projects as well.