Richard Wilson is a Senior Research Fellow in the field of proteomics and manager of the UTAS proteomics facility. He was awarded his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Manchester (UK) in 1998. He is a biochemist with a long-standing interest in cartilage biology and pathology and many years of experience in the application of proteomics in a wide range of biological contexts. He has been an invited speaker at the International Cartilage Repair Society meeting. He has held his current appointment as manager of the Central Science Laboratory proteomics mass spectrometry facility at the University of Tasmania since 2011 and has an honorary appointment with the Musculoskeletal Research Group at MCRI. He is a member of the Australasian Proteomics Society and the Matrix Biology Society of Australia and New Zealand.