Dr Seán O’Donoghue

Seán O’Donoghue is the founder of Visual.Recipes, a start-up working on AI-driven data visualization, and co-founder and chair of VIZBI, an initiative aimed at raising the standard of data visualization in computational biology. He is a Conjoint Professor in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at UNSW, a Visiting Scientist at CSIRO Data61, and Specialty Chief Editor of the Data Visualization section of Frontiers in Bioinformatics.

Previously he founded and directed the BioVis Centre at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, and was a Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO. Much of his career was spent at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany, and at EMBL’s spin-off company Lion Bioscience AG, where he was Director of Scientific Visualization.

His work focuses on using advanced visualization methods to address biomedical data challenges, resulting in bioinformatics resources used by thousands of scientists worldwide, and biomedical animations seen by over half a million people.