Rory Wilson#
| Membership Number: | 4814 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/science/biosciences/r.p.wilson |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - present Chair in Aquatic Biology, Biosciences, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK.
- 2000 - 2004 Research scientist, Institut für Meereskunde, Kiel, Germany
- 2000 (3 months) Professor at the National Institute for Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
- 1990 - 2000 Research scientist, Institut für Meereskunde, Kiel, Germany
- 1990 (3 months) Researcher (Chargé de Recherche 2), CNRS, Centre d'Etudes Biologiques des Animaux Sauvages, Niort, France
- 1987 - 1990 Guest researcher, Institut für Meereskunde, Kiel, Germany
- 1986 - 1987 Post-doctoral scholarship, Department of Zoology, University of Göteborg, Sweden
- 1986 (4 months); Visiting Research Scientist, Bamfield Marine Station, Bamfield, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
- 1980 - 1985 Scientific Officer, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Fields of Scholarship
- Animal behavioural ecology
- Animal energetics
- Animal movement ecology
- Technology for informing animal conservation
- Technological advances for studying wild animal ecology
Honours and Awards
- 2006 ROLEX Award for Research Enterprise
- 2015 Listed in the BBC Power List of Top 50 Most Influential Conservationists
- 2015 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (F.R.S.B.)
- 2015 Elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
