Dr Vivien Rolland
Pronouns: he,him,his
Team Leader & Senior Research Scientist
Biography
Vivien (Viv) Rolland is a collaborative plant microimaging & biotechnology expert with a mindset focused on developing cross-discipline solutions to improve crop value and sustainability.
For example, Viv investigates how recent advances in microimaging, image analysis and Artificial Intelligence can be used to investigate crop performance to deliver impact through better varieties. Viv co-leads the Object Detection activity of the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence FSP to use AI to develop practical solutions across domains and scales - from single-cell organisms to radiogalaxies!
Previously, he was involved in Synthetic Biology efforts to engineer crops to do new things: natural cotton fibres with new stretch properties to partially replace fossil-fuel based synthetics, or plant leaves with increased oil content to support a growing global demand. Up until late 2022, Viv was leading the Black Mountain microImaging Centre (BMIC), which provides expertise, training, and state-of-the art microimaging capabilities to 100+ users, to enable impactful scientific discoveries for Agriculture.
Viv is the recipient of a 2023 Nuffield Fellowship, the 2022 ACT Young Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year Award and a 2019 CSIRO Julius Career Award.
Viv is an Associate Editor for BMC Plant Methods, and he peer-reviews for a range of top-tier journals.
So far, Viv has co-authored 2 provisional patents and 31 scientific publications (Scopus citations: 853, H-factor=12, Google Scholar citations: 1201, H-factor=14) in The Plant Cell, Plant Physiology, Plant Biotechnology Journal, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Genome Biology, ISME J, WACV, Developmental Cell, The Plant Journal, Journal of Experimental Botany, Development, Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Microbiology, Plant Methods, Plant and Cell Physiology and Plant Direct.
Achievements and Awards
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2023-
2023 Nuffield Fellowship
Nuffield Australia -
2022-
2022 ACT Young Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year Award
Australian Institute of Policy and Science -
2019-2023
2019 Julius Career Award
CSIRO
Current Roles
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Team Leader
Translational Biology -
Senior Research Scientist
Academic Qualifications
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2012
Doctorate in Molecular Biology
University of Vienna, Austria -
2007
MSc in Cellular & Molecular Biology and Oncology
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France -
2005
BSc in Genetics and Developmental Biology
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France & University of Ottawa, Canada
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Related links
- Viv Rolland's LinkedIN profile
- ABC news articles about Nuffield Australia 2023 Scholars
- Australian Association of Cotton Scientists - 2021 science talk about computer vision for Cotton
- ECOS blog - The eyes don’t have it: Machine vision to improve cotton breeding
- CSIRO HairNet Video
- ABC news article about our Cotton Research
- ABC Landline video about our Cotton Research
- EMCR profile on the Australian Academy of Science website
- Micro to Macro blog post