Dr. Donald Quicke has had more than 40 years' experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate biology students, initially at Sheffield University, UK and then at Imperial College London. He retired in 2013 and is now a teaching research fellow at the Department of Biology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. He co-authored Practical R for Biologists: An Introduction (2021). He is one of the world's leading experts on the taxonomy, systematics, and biology of parasitoid wasps.