Jim Wilson

Jim Wilson is a Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. After a year working with Svante Pääbo in Bavaria, Jim went to New College in Oxford where he completed a DPhil in human population genetics with David Goldstein. Jim then took up a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in Edinburgh.

He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, 43 of which were in the top genetics journal Nature Genetics, 10 in Nature and 2 in Science: he is a Thomson-Reuters highly cited researcher, and has an h-index of 65.

Jim initiated two large genetic epidemiology studies in northern Scotland: these platform resources for health research benefit from rich phenotyping, deep genotyping, a tissue biobank and prospective follow up through record linkage and have contributed to the discovery of over 1000 novel associations.

Jim also leads a number of international genetics consortia, regularly contributes to documentaries on genetics and has been involved in the genetic ancestry testing business for over a decade.