[1] Seamus Ross is Professor at the iSchool at the University of Toronto, also known as the Faculty of Information and from 2009 through 2015 he served as the School's Dean.
During 2016, he is Visiting Professor at the School of Information Sciences and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business (Athens, GR), and Interim Director of the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto.
Before joining Toronto, he was Professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation and Founding Director of HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute)[2] (1997–2009) at the University of Glasgow.
[7] From the beginning of 1990 through 1996, Ross was Assistant Secretary (Information Technology) at the British Academy in London.
[10] He promotes a diversity in ways of making scholarship available to broader audiences and was instrumental in the creation of the Digiman Series through Digital Preservation Europe, Digital Preservation and Nuclear Disaster: An Animation,[11] In March 2016, Ross was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters.