Rory Wilson - Curriculum Vitae#

• BA (Hons) (Zoology), University of Oxford (1979)
  
• MA (Zoology), University of Oxford (1982)
  
• PhD (Zoology), University of Cape Town ‘The Jackass Penguin Spheniscus demersus as a pelagic predator’ (1986)

• Field: Behavioural Ecology of Animal Movement and foraging
  
• Research papers: >350 papers in peer-reviewed books and journals
  
• Received ≈17,000 citations; h-index = 72

• Awarded external grants incl from the DFG, VW Stiftung, ICSU (SCAR), FRD, Japanese Program for Advancement of Science, MINOS, RC (UK), EU.
  
• Current running grants totalling €5.03M, incl from NERC, EPSRC, ERC, OSR (KAUST)

• Co-convenor of Pacific Seabird Group Symposium, Hakodate, Japan (Feb 2009)
• Co-convener of the World Seabird Group Symposium special session (Technological and Analytical Innovation in Seabird Research) (Sept 2010)
• >10 Plenary/keynote presentations at International Conferences in the last 5 years, including (last 2 years)
  
• Keynote for Norwegian Vet Society, Oslo, Norway (2016)
  
• Keynote lecture for the KAUST– Fall Enrichment Program, Saudi Arabia (2015)
  
• Plenary lecture for the British Ornithological Union, Leicester, UK (2015)
  
• Keynote lecture for the RSPCA/Home Office, London, UK (2015)
  
• Keynote for Society for Experimental Biology, Prague, Czech Republic (2015)
  

• Invented the concept of using a stomach temperature probe (Wilson et al. (1992) J. Exp. Biol. 167; 267-275) to determine when marine endotherms feed. This is now adopted by industry (see e.g. http://www.wildlifecomputers.com/products.aspx?ID=10)
  
• Invented the concept of geolocation to determine animal movements (Wilson et al. (1992) Pp 131-134 in: Wildl Telemetry, Ellis Horwood, Chichester). This is now sold extensively by industry (see http://www.birdtracker.co.uk); currently, tens of thousands of animals are equipped with this technology

• Many TV appearances e.g. for Argentinean, Australian, British, Canadian, French, German, South African and USA stations (and speaking in each country's native language).
  
• Chief scientific advisor to National Geographic TV for ‘Great Migrations', the most extensive and expensive project ever undertaken by National Geographic TV in its 130 year history. The making of the 7-part series was partly inspired by Rory Wilson’s work with his animal tags and this work is featured in part 5. Great Migrations was disseminated to 330 million viewers in 166 countries in 34 languages.
  
• Many radio interviews at stations around the world (including those listed above for TV) and outside Europe, including; Chile, India, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, UAE.