Dr. Wilkinson is the lead author of the FAIR principles. He has been working for more than 7 years to define simple yet powerful ways for researchers to publish and integrate their research output. The publication of the FAIR Principles represents the latest success in these goals - a simple set of guidelines that simplify the discovery and reuse of scientific data.

At the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Dr. Wilkinson runs a research group focusing on data integration problems in biological research. They are specifically interested in how Semantic Web technologies might be used to automate much of the question-answering and discovery by biologists, given the vast and dispersed datasets they need to mine to make these discoveries.