Rachel Wood FRS is a palaeobiologist, geologist and Professor of Carbonate Geoscience at the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences. [1]
Her research covers the Ediacaran– Cambrian transition, the origin of biomineralisation, the evolution of reef systems, and carbonate production through time. [2]
She is the author of Reef Evolution published by Oxford University Press (1999). [3] [4] [5]
She is an associate editor of the journal Science Advances. [6] In 2020, she was awarded the Lyell Medal of Geological Society of London, [7] and in 2022 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. [8]