Paul Wilcox FIMechE, FIEEE is Professor of Dynamics at the University of Bristol. He received an MEng degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford in 1994 and a PhD from Imperial College London in 1998. He was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow in Quantitative Structural Health Monitoring (2007-12), Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department (2015-18), Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science (2018-23), and Academic Director of the UK Research Centre for Non-Destructive Evaluation (2020-25). In 2015 he was a co-founder of Inductosense Ltd., a spin-out company set up to commercialise inductively-coupled embedded ultrasonic sensors. He is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), and Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).