I completed my undergraduate studies in Plant Science at the University of Tasmania (Australia) (UTAS). Staying put, I received my PhD at UTAS in 1997. After a year postdoctoral study with my supervisor (Professor Bob Hill), I spent 3 years working as a postdoctoral student with Missy Holbrook at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA). I won a Putnam Fellowship at the Arnold Arboretum (Boston, MA, USA) for a further 2 years. After this I returned to Tasmania in 2005 and was awarded two successive fellowships funded by the Australian Research Council. I was awarded a permanent position at the University of Tasmania in 2017. My current interests include all aspects of plant hydraulics, plant mortality, and links between hydraulic and photosynthetic function including stomatal physiology and anatomical associations. I continue to look into evolutionary patterns in water relations and gas exchange physiology through the different vascular plant lineages.

Tim has been an Associate Editor of New Phytologist since 2019, and was previously a Co-editor of New Phytologist from 2010.