Professor Seberry is Director of the Centre for Computer Security Research at the University of Wollongong. She graduated PhD in Computation Mathematics from La Trobe University in 1971 and subsequently held positions at the Australian National University, the University of Sydney and University College, the Australian Defence Force Academy and the University of New South Wales. She has published extensively in Discrete Mathematics and is world renown for her new discoveries on Hadamard matrices, orthogonal designs and statistical designs. In 1970 she co-founded the series of conferences known as the XXth Australian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing.