Nir is a Professor and Group Leader at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI), Monash University, Australia. He earned his PhD degree with high distinction in 2010 from Porto University, Portugal. His areas of expertise are epigenetics, ageing and exercise, an area for which he won the Young Tall Poppy 2021 award. His expertise has been recognised by being selected to the ARC College of Experts in 2023. He is a NHMRC Investigator Fellow (2021-2025), a former NHMRC Career Development Fellow (2018-2021), and ARC DECRA Fellow (2014-2016). He was recently awarded Hevolution/Am Fed Aging Research New Investigator Fellowship in Aging Biology. He published 117 papers, and his research is published in high-impact journals and focuses on the discovery of sex-specific molecular markers associated with exercise & healthy ageing. The Eynon lab uses a combination of wet-lab and bioinformatics analyses, with a particular focus on ‘omics’ datasets including DNA methylation, transcriptomics and proteomics.