Professor Rohl is a leading expert in the application of supercomputing and computer simulation technologies in materials chemistry with more than 135 published papers to his name. In 2004, Professor Rohl became the Executive Director of iVEC and developed a successful partnership across five institutions to provide major advanced computing facilities for all Western Australian researchers. This culminated in the $80 million Pawsey Centre, a world-class purpose-built data centre at Technology Park that houses one of the largest supercomputers in the Southern Hemisphere. In 2015, he became the inaugural director of the Curtin Institute for Computation. In 2018, he successfully led the bid that was awarded $3.9M from the ARC for the Training Centre for Transforming Maintenance through Data Science.