Rory Wilson is currently Head of the Institute of Environmental Sustainability (IES), a professor of Aquatic Biology and Postgraduate Research Admissions Tutor for Biosciences.

He was born in Northamptonshire, England and studied Zoology at Oxford University before moving to the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, South Africa to do his PhD, completed in 1985. He undertook post-doctoral work at Bamfield Marine Station, Canada and Gothenburg, Sweden, before working as a research scientist in the Institut fur Meereskunde, Kiel, Germany. He was awarded his chair by Swansea University in 2004.

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