Nir is a 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, and ageing biology an area for which he won the Young Tall Poppy 2021 & the 2024 Australian Epigenetics Alliance Excellence in Research awards. 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, and ARC DECRA Fellow. He was recently awarded Hevolution/Am Fed Aging Research New Investigator Fellowship in Aging Biology. The Eynon lab uses a combination of wet-lab and bioinformatics analyses, with a particular focus on ‘omics’ datasets including DNA methylation, transcription factors, transcriptomics and proteomics.