More colleague tributes for tragic cyclist

Published on Thursday 8 May 2008 10:10

AN EDINBURGH professor has paid tribute to the "boyish enthusiasm" of a colleague killed in a road crash last week.

Dr Iain Wilson, 35, from Duddingston, died when his bicycle collided with a lorry at the junction of Nicolson Street and West Richmond Street last Tuesday.

The neuroscientist, who worked at Edinburgh University's School of Biomedical Sciences, had set up home in the Capital with his wife Silvia after completing postgraduate research in Finland.

His colleague Professor Richard Morris said: "Iain was quite simply the nicest person you could hope to meet. His boyish enthusiasm was infectious and he was a very popular member of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience.

"He made an immense contribution to the broader academic and social life of the group.

"The unnecessary death of anyone is tragic and of a young person particularly so. What adds to our grief is that we all know that Iain was only very recently married. Our hearts go out to his wife Silvia and to their parents at this time."