Ben Fulcher completed a B.Sc. (Adv) (Hons) at the University of Sydney with majors in Physics and Nanoscience and Technology in 2007. He went on to obtain an M.Sc. in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney in 2008 on the topic of physiologically-based modeling of sleep-wake dynamics. This work focused on extending a neuronal population-based model of the sleep-wake switch, and using it to simulate such phenomena as sleep deprivation, impulsive external stimuli, and the effect of caffeine. Dr Fulcher went on to complete a DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2012 on highly comparative time-series analysis. This work involved comparing thousands of time series collected and synthesized across the scientific disciplines, and the behavior of thousands of time-series analysis methods on these data. The research has culminated in a collaborative online platform for time-series analysis that can be found at www.comp-engine.org/timeseries.