Dr. Michael Bromley was born in Brisbane and raised in Darwin. He did a BSc at the (now) Charles Darwin University, honours down at the University of Melbourne, and a PhD also at Charles Darwin University for which he was awarded the Australian Institute of Physics' Bragg Gold Medal. He then postdoc'd at Kansas State University (USA) before joining the faculty at San Diego State University (USA) for 6 years. He was awarded a 2010 ARC Future Fellowship to move his computational physics research to UQ to continue the explorations on the quantum mechanics of atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) systems. He currently works at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ).