About

Seán O’Donoghue is a conjoint Professor at UNSW in Sydney, Australia, and also a visiting scientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). For most of his career, he worked in Germany, at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), one of the world’s premier research institutes in the life sciences, and at EMBL’s first spin-off company, Lion Bioscience AG, where he was Director of Scientific Visualization. Seán's research focuses on using advanced visualization methods - including Augmented Reality - to address data challenges in the life sciences. His team has created online research tools used by tens of thousands of scientists worldwide, and biomedical animations that have been viewed by a global audience of ~1 million. He is also a co-founder of VIZBI, an international initiative to raise the standard of data visualisation in biology and the biomedical sciences.