Professor Montgomery is an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow and Deputy Coordinator of the Genetics and Computational Biology Department at QIMR Berghofer MRC. He has an outstanding track record and is recognized internationally for his studies in reproductive genetics and gene discovery of complex disease. He leads studies of the genetic contribution to important common diseases including endometriosis and in systems biology. He has published influential papers across a range of disciplines in the life sciences and medicine including papers in New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Nature Genetics, Lancet, Archives of General Psychiatry, and the American Journal of Human Genetics.