Marcus is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at The University of Queensland. His research interests and expertise are in optimisation, evolutionary computation and machine learning, including cross-disciplinary collaborations and real-world applications. He is particularly interested in understanding the relationship between algorithm performance and problem instance structure to quantify notions of problem difficulty in black-box optimisation. Marcus is also interested in algorithm benchmarking, experimental reproducibility and data-driven optimisation problems.