Roderick J. Hill is a retired Chief Research Scientist and senior manager in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Pro Vice Chancellor for Industry Engagement and Commercialisation at Monash University.

He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 1997 and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the Mineralogical Society of America and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. In 2001 he was awarded a Centenary Medal from the Australian Federal Government in recognition of his "services to Australian society in applied mineralogy".