Professor Rackham’s team focuses on using synthetic biology to engineer and understand transcriptomes, the genetic code, genomes, and organelles. Oliver established his own group in WA in 2006 as an NHMRC Peter Doherty Fellow. Since then he has been awarded a Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship, an ARC Future Fellowship, the Marshall Medal, and was inducted into the European Inventor Hall of Fame. He was a founding member and past President of Synthetic Biology Australasia. Oliver joined Curtin University and the Curtin Medical Research Institute in 2019. His team is based at The Kids Research Institute Australia and he is currently an NHMRC Investigator and Node and Theme Leader of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology.