Katherine Jane Willis CBE FGS ita ce masaniyar ilimin halitta, wanda ke nazarin dangantakar dake tsakanin dogon lokaci da canjin yanayi. Ita ce Farfesa a ilimin halittu a Sashen Zoology, Jami'ar Oxford, kuma mataimakiyar Farfesa a fannin Biology a Jami'ar Bergen. A cikin 2018 an zabe ta a matsayin shugabar St Edmund Hall, kuma ta dauki wannan matsayi daga 1 ga Oktoba.Ta rike Tasso Leventis Shugabar Diversity a Oxford kuma ta kasance Daraktan kafa, yanzu Mataimakin Darakta, na Cibiyar Biodiversity Oxford. Willis ya kasance Daraktan Kimiyya a Lambunan Botanic na Royal, Kew daga 2013-2018. Willis ta sami digiri na farko a fannin ilimin kasa da kimiyyar muhalli daga Jami'ar Southampton, sannan ta samu digirin digirgir a fannin kimiyar shuka daga Jami'ar Cambridge don bincike kan tarihin ciyayi na marigayi Quaternary a Epirus, arewa maso yammacin Girka. Bayan ta PhD, Willis ta gudanar da Kwalejin Selwyn, Cambridge Postdoctoral Research Fellowship a Jami'ar Cambridge, Cibiyar Nazarin Muhalli ta Halitta (NERC) Fellowship Postdoctoral a cikin Sashen Kimiyyar Shuka, da Fellowshipungiyar Binciken Jami'ar Royal Society (URF) a cikin Godwin Cibiyar Nazarin Quaternary, Jami'ar Cambridge.