William David Richardson FRS FLS (born 18 August 1951) has been Director of the UCL Wolfson Institute since 2012.

[1] He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, the University of Manchester (BSc Physics, 1973) and King's College London (PhD, 1978).

[2] He was a Lecturer in Molecular Genetics at University College London from 1985 to 1990 and has been Professor of Biology at the UCL Wolfson Institute since 1993.

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013.

He is also a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.