Joseph Parker (born 1979 or 1980) is a Welsh evolutionary biologist.

[1] He is the director of the Center for Evolutionary Science at the California Institute of Technology, where he is a professor.

[1][3] Parker was born and raised in Swansea, Wales.

[1] In 2001, he graduated from Imperial College London with a BSc.

[1] He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2005.