Elaine is the Professor of Molecular Phenomics at Murdoch University and Head of the Centre for Computational & Systems medicine. She undertook her PhD in molecular phenotyping using NMR spectroscopy and has since broadened her research capabilities to develop chemometric and other statistical methods for analysing large-scale metabolic data. Elaine has applied metabolic phenotyping in the areas of toxicology, molecular epidemiology and nutrition and health.