James O’Dwyer

Associate Professor of Plant Biology, University of Illinois

**James O’Dwyer**, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Illinois (Urbana) and a Hrdy Fellow with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard) 2020-2021. Ecological systems are the archetypal complex systems. They are typically heterogeneous, display non-equilibrium phenomena, are strongly interacting, noisy, and adapt over time. He brings together theory, experiment, and empirical data to try to understand how ecological processes drive the patterns of species and organisms we see in nature.