Dr. Andrianopoulos is associate professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Melbourne in Australia, where he received his Ph.D. in 1989. From 1990 to 1993, he worked as a research associate at the University of Georgia in the United States. He has received the Australian Postgraduate Research Award, the Dean's Award for Research Excellence in 2004, and the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005. He is also supported in part by the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. He is working on a molecular genetic study of the control of development and pathogenicity in the dimorphic human pathogen Penicillium marneffei.

Alex Andrianopoulos is studying the human pathogen Penicillium marneffei, a fungus that can grow in either a unicellular or multicellular form, depending on the temperature surrounding it. Andrianopoulos is attempting to identify genes controlling this change in form at the molecular and cellular level. His findings will have both medical and scientific value, as well as important implications for biotechnology.