Andrew S. Ball works at the Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Remediation School of Science, RMIT University, Australia. He is a molecular biologist with extensive industry experience and expertise in DNA analysis for the identification and typing of organisms. He is known internationally as the author of the original methodology of ribotyping. He is an advisor to Geneious (a bioinformatics software company) and the previous head of Molecular Biology at Austin Health Microbiology. He is currently Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, Editor of Journal of Microbiological Methods, Editor of Heliyon and Series Editor of Methods in Microbiology. He has published more than 330 publications in peer-reviewed journals with an h-index of 54 (Scopus, February 2024).
