Dr. Patrick James is Associate Professor in the Graduate Department of Forestry at the University of Toronto. He completed his undergraduate (ecology) and doctoral (Forestry) degrees at the University of Toronto. He then pursed postdoctoral work at the University of Alberta focused on the landscape genetics of the mountain pine beetle outbreak. Following that, he was professor of ecological modelling at the Université de Montréal prior to returning to Forestry at the University of Toronto. Broadly his research focusses on forest disturbance dynamics with particular emphasis on insect outbreak dynamics, wildfire, climate change, and forest sustainability. Research in the JamesLab uses a broad range of analytical, empirical, and simulation approaches to better understand complex forest ecosystem dynamics, at broad spatial and temporal scales.