Frédérique Lisacek heads the Proteome Informatics Group at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and holds a senior lecturer position at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She received a PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from the University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France and held research positions in France, Japan and Australia working on knowledge representation and data mining methods. She spent a few years in industry (Proteome Systems Ltd in Sydney, Australia and Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) S.A, in Geneva, Switzerland) before joining SIB in 2006, where she has been driving knowledge discovery projects in proteomics and more recently in glycomics . Her group teams with an international network of dedicated glycoscientists gathering momentum to deliver a range of databases and software increasingly used in the community.