Professor Trounce gained his PhD degree from the University of Melbourne in 1991. He held postdoctoral and junior faculty positions at Emory University in the laboratory of Douglas Wallace before establishing his own laboratory in Australia in 1997. He is currently associate professor and Wagstaff Fellow in Ophthalmology in the Center for Eye Research Australia. His expertise is centered on the oxidative phosphorylation pathway, but includes many aspects of mitochondrial genetics, cell biology and neurobiology. He specializes in mitochondrial dysfunction in age-related neurodegenerative diseases, including retinal disease.