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Nerida Wilson

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia Dr Nerida Wilson is a marine molecular biologist, who received her B.Sc from University of Melbourne, and B.Sc. (Hons.) and PhD at University of Queensland (2004). After two postdocs in the USA she returned to Australia to work at the Australian Museum, and later the Western Australian Museum. Currently, Nerida works as Scientific Campaign Coordinator at the National Biodiversity DNA Library, CSIRO. Her research interests focus on understanding and describing the extent of biological diversity present on Earth and resolving the evolutionary relationships among those taxa. She is passionate about taxonomy and systematics as the foundational discipline that underpins biological science. Nerida has published over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has four species named after her. Nerida has participated on over 16 oceanographic expeditions and acted as Chief Scientist on several of those.