Dr Nicole McPherson is an NHMRC Peter Doherty Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide (2 year full time equivalent since PhD conferral). Her research encompasses lifestyle factors and male fertility, paternal programming of offspring health, basic and comparative sperm biology and improving IVF technologies through choosing the best sperm. Dr McPherson also works in close collaboration with the Monash IVF group to ensure her research is clinically translatable and currently is running a phase 1 clinical trial for improve IVF fertilisation. As of early 2019, she has 27 publications which have attracted over 1200 citation.