After completing a Bachelor of Science at Monash University, John-Luis completed a Masters in Biomedical Science research with Geoff Head at the Baker Institute and Roger Evans at Monash University. Since then he has worked at Monash University as a teaching assistant and at the Baker Institute as a surgical assistant. He is currently at the Baker Institute working with the Laboratory Operations team and as an Administration Officer for the Systems Genomics, and Computational and Clinical Informatics labs.