Sean Mathieson has been working at the INFANT Centre, UCC, Cork as a Neurophysiologist since 2017.

After completing a BSc in Biology in Bath and an MSc in Neuroscience at UCL, Sean trained and worked as a Clinical Physiologist at Great Ormond Street hospital from 2001-2009 in the EEG department performing EEG (brainwave) recordings and other neurophysiological tests on children with epilepsy. He worked in the Neonatal Brain Research Group from 2009 – 2016, working at UCLH in London to recruit and record EEG on neonates at risk of seizures for the ANSeR study to test an automated seizure detection algorithm for neonatal EEG. During this time he studied for a PhD which involved analysis of various aspects of the performance of the ANSeR algorithm.

Sean Mathieson specialises in the area of neonatal neurophysiology. He has previously worked on the ANSeR project to devise and test an automated algorithm to detect neonatal seizures, the Delphi project to test an automated algorithm for grading of the background EEG, and the BabySMART project investigating the effect of parent-led  massage on the EEG of term born healthy infants.

Sean is currently involved in several EEG projects, including; development of an AI-based newborn brain screener (Wave); the AIM HIGH project to investigate early EEG biomarkers of cerebral Palsy; and the ACUMEN study to investigate Melatonin as a neuroprotectant for neonatal hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy.

Dr Mary Anne Ryan. 'Sleep and developmental outcome of the moderate to late preterm infant' 2023.

Dr Soraia Ventura. 'Electroencephalographic Study of Sleep Architecture in Infants at Four Months' 2024.

Sonia M Lenehan 'Investigating the effect of breastfeeding, massage, and moderate-to-late preterm birth on the developing brain.'