Martin Wilson was born in Merthyr Tydfil in the UK. At university, he earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree in Genetics from Liverpool and a PhD in Plant Cell Biology from Leicester.After moving to the US, he worked on crop improvement for various companies. He helped improve the aerosol beam injector, a device invented by Dr. Laurens Mets at the University of Chicago for the introduction of DNA into cells.A Wormhole in San Carlos was inspired by a year spent in California working for the International Plant Research Institute (IPRI). Martin is currently living in Durham, North Carolina with his wife, Barbara.
