Paul Willis, ABC (Australia)
Born in England in 1963, Paul moved to Australia in 1973. He followed his boyhood interest in fossils and dinosaurs through university to complete a PhD looking at Australian fossil crocodiles. Paul has variously worked as the Curator of Vertebrates at the Macleay Museum in the University of Sydney and spent a couple of years touring Australia with a life-size inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex as part of a primary school education program. In 1992-93, he spent nearly 9 months in Bonn, Germany, as part of an exchange program. In early 1997 Paul landed a traineeship with the ABC as a Science Broadcaster and has been annoying people with a microphone ever since. His radio achievements so far include The Correx Files for Triple J, a regular science talkback segments with a variety of presenters across Australia on the metro stations and articles for The Science Show, Earthbeat and The Health Report. He started in TV in 1999 appearing in the last year of Quantum and has been a Reporter/Producer on Catalyst since its beginnings in 2001.
