Professor Richard G. Wilson was born in Liverpool , U.K., and obtained a bachelor´s degree in mathematics from the University of Liverpool in 1967 and then a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970. After a postdoctoral year at the University of Carleton in Ottawa, he obtained a post as Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez. He moved to Mexico in 1974 and is a founding member of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM).

During his academic career, he has published more than 100 scientific articles in international journals with a strict refereeing process, the overwhelming majority in journals included in the SCI. His publications concern Set-theoretic Topology and its applications to Graph Theory and Computation. He was named Distinguished Professor of the UAM in the year 2000 and was awarded the honor of Professor Emeritus in 2015.

He has been invited to give plenary lectures at international symposia and seminars in conferences and universities in the U.K., Spain, Italy, United States, Brazil, and New Zealand as well as Mexico. He is a member of the Mexican Mathematical Society and the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

In addition to his scientific publications, he is the author of a textbook on Integral and Differential Calculus, another on Set-theoretic Topology, and a guide to the Birds of the Mexico City.