Paul Wilcox received an MEng degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford in 1994 and a PhD from Imperial College London in 1998. He remained in the Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) research group at Imperial College as a Research Associate until 2002, working on the development of guided wave array transducers for large area inspection.

Since 2002 Prof. Wilcox has been with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol where his current title is Professor of Dynamics. He held an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship in Quantitative Structural Health Monitoring from 2007 to 2012 and was Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department from 2015 to 2018. He has been a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science since 2018 and is currently the Academic Director of the UK Research Centre for NDE (RCNDE). In 2015 he was a co-founder of Inductosense Ltd., a spin-out company which is commercialising inductively-coupled embedded ultrasonic sensors.