Prof Andrew Lonie
As founding director, Andrew's strategic vision for collaborative national life sciences bioinformatics infrastructure led to the establishment of Australian BioCommons. Both keenly aware of researchers' needs, and a strong relationship builder, he led the team to establish BioCommons and to steer us through significant advances in bioinformatics, data science and artificial intelligence as it applies to life sciences.
Andrew has over 20 years of experience working at the University of Melbourne across a wide variety of leadership roles. He was Head of the Life Sciences Computation Centre for 14 years, and has held directorships at Melbourne Bioinformatics, Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, EMBL Australia Bioinformatics Resource, and Australian BioCommons.
Andrew is currently Professor of Medicine, and Director, Biomedical Research Infrastructure (AI and Informatics), FMDHS, University of Melbourne.