Professor Wilkinson is a specialist in satellite image understanding. He has a degree in physics from Imperial College London and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in remote sensing from the University of Oxford. He has been at Glyndwr since early 2007 and is Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the Institute of Art, Science and Technology. Formerly, he was at the University of Lincoln (2002-07) where he was Dean of the Faculty of Technology. Before going to Lincoln he was Head of the School of Computing and Information Systems at Kingston University. Prior to that he spent over 8 years at the Space Applications Institute of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre at Ispra in Italy, where he led the Advanced Methods group in the Environmental Modelling and Mapping Unit.

He specializes in advanced computational techniques for analysis of satellite images, and has published extensively in the field. He has co-edited two books in the area: Neurocomputation in Remote Sensing Data Analysis (Springer Verlag, Berlin) and Machine Vision and Advanced Image Processing in Remote Sensing (Springer Verlag, Berlin). He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society. Professor Wilkinson is Associate Editor of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Geographical Systems. He is a member of the Technical and Scientific Advisory Council for “IncGeo” –a Belgian geo-information business incubator centre which supports the commercialization of geographical information system technologies developed in Belgian universities.