Professor Rob Wilson is the Director of Research at the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews. His main research focuses on late Holocene paleoclimatology (the Common Era) with a specific emphasis on the use of tree-ring archives to understand the drivers of climate and environmental change. He has been involved in local and regional studies in Europe, North and South America, as well as Australasia, and has led initiatives to understand large-scale climate change at hemispheric scales.