Dr. Moyra Wilson serves as Senior Lecturer in Sedimentology in the School of Earth and Oceans within the Earth Sciences at the University of Western Australia, a position she has held since 2016. She is also affiliated with the UWA Oceans Institute. Her research specializations encompass coral reefs and climate change, sedimentology, petroleum geology, reservoirs, aquifers, geothermal systems, palaeoenvironment, and palaeoclimatology. Additional academic interests include carbonate sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentary basins, paleogeography, palaeoecology, sedimentary geochemistry, and marine geology. Prior to her current appointment, Wilson was a Senior Research and Teaching Fellow (part-time) at Curtin University from 2011 to 2016, a Specialist Consultant (part-time) in marine, environmental, and petroleum geoscience from 2012 to 2016, a Research and Teaching Fellow at Curtin University from 2007 to 2011, a Lecturer in Soft Rock Geology at Durham University, UK from 1999 to 2007, a Postdoctoral Researcher in the SE Asia Research Group at Royal Holloway, University of London from 1996 to 1999, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Birkbeck College, University of London from 1995 to 1996. She earned her PhD from Royal Holloway College, London in 1995, researching syntectonic carbonate platform sedimentation in Indonesia.

Wilson has authored or co-authored 77 publications, with over 4,365 citations on ResearchGate and notable works on Google Scholar including 'Hopping hotspots: global shifts in marine biodiversity' (2008, 603 citations), 'Neogene sutures in eastern Indonesia' (2000, 534 citations), 'Biogeographic implications of the Tertiary palaeogeographic evolution of Sulawesi and Borneo' (1998, 290 citations), 'New insights into deformation and fluid flow processes in the Nankai Trough accretionary prism: Results of Ocean Drilling Program Leg 190' (2001, 251 citations), and 'Implications of paucity of corals in the Paleogene of SE Asia: plate tectonics or centre of origin' (1998, 228 citations). Recent publications feature 'Early Miocene carbonate ramp development in a warm ocean, North West Shelf, Australia' (2022), 'Middle Miocene tropical oligotrophic lagoon deposit sheds light on the origin of the Western Australian coral reef province' (2021), and 'Spherulitic microbialites from modern hypersaline lakes, Rottnest Island, Western Australia' (2020). She supervises honours and masters students in Earth Science, Geoscience, and Marine Geoscience on topics such as environmental change in carbonate systems and reef evolution.

Professional Email: moyra.wilson@uwa.edu.au