About me:

James Dyke is an academic, writer, and author. He is an Associate Professor in Earth System Science, and Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the European Geosciences Union, and serves on the editorial board of the journal Earth System Dynamics.

James conducted his doctoral research at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex. In 2019 he was awarded a DPhil in Informatics for the thesis The Daisyworld Control System. From 2008 to 2011 James worked as a Research Scientists in the Biospheric Theory and Modelling Group, Max Plank Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany. He developed new models of life-planet co-evolution as part of an international astrobiology project led by the Helmholtz Association.

In 2011 James took up a lectureship in the Centre for Complex Systems Simulation at the school of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. In 2014 James transferred to the School of Geography where he led postgraduate teaching and research groups on sustainability science.

James joined the University of Exeter in 2018. He designed and then led the cross-department programme MSc Global Sustainability Solutions. In 2019 he was appointed Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute. In 2022 & 2023 James served as the lead academic for the 2023 British Science Festival

As well as his academic duties, James is a science and environment writer. He is the environmental columnist for UK newspaper i, and has written for international publications that includes The Ecologist, The Guardian, The Independent and The Conversation. His book Fire Storm and Flood: the violence of climate change was published in 2021 by Bloomsbury imprint Head of Zeus. James is a regular contributor to UK and international media.

Interests:

Research Keywords: artificial life, biogeography, complex systems, Earth system & climate science & policy, Gaia, sustainability science

Qualifications:

Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice 2015
DPhil Informatics 2009
MSc Evolutionary & Adaptive Systems 2005
BA (hons) Philosophy 1995