Dr Nerida Wilson - Scientific Campaign Coordinator, National Biodiversity Library, CSIRO

Affiliation with the Antarctic Science Foundation

Ambassador for ASF on Antarctica Flights Season 2023/24

More About Nerida

Nerida Wilson is a marine molecular biologist who received her B.Sc from the University of Melbourne and B.Sc. (Hons.) and PhD at the 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.

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