Prof. David S. Wishart is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Computing Science at the University of Alberta, which he joined in 1995. He also holds adjunct appointments in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Prof. David S. Wishart is well known for his pioneering contributions to the fields of protein NMR spectroscopy, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, and metabolomics. In 2011, Wishart founded the Metabolomics Innovation Centre (TMIC), which is Canada’s national metabolomics laboratory. He received his B.Sc. (Honours, First Class) in physics from the University of Alberta in 1983 and his M.Phil. (1986) and Ph.D. degrees (1991) in molecular biophysics from Yale University. His research interests span several areas including structural biology, computational biology, bioinformatics, nanobiology, metabolomics, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. A common theme to his research career has been the development of techniques, technology cores, protocols, data resources or computer programs that make science simpler, faster, cheaper or easier.