Mark Willcox is a Professor at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales. He is a medical microbiologist who has worked for many years in the area of infections of medical devices. His research interests mainly focus on optometry and ophthalmology, medical microbiology, immunology, proteomics and intermolecular interactions (incl. medical proteomics), and medical biochemistry: proteins and peptides (incl. medical proteomics). He has authored/co-authored 574 publications with 19990 citations and an h-index of 72 (Scopus, December 2023).