Dr. James Millington

Biography

James Millington is an environmental geographer and landscape ecologist who studies landscape environmental change, with a primary focus on land management and fire. He is also a data scientist and computational modeller specializing in human-environment systems, showcasing expertise in developing and applying modelling tools to investigate spatial, ecological, and socio-economic interactions. With over a decade of teaching experience at various levels of higher education, including international field classes, he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Higher Education Academy. James is an active committee member of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (UK Chapter) and a leading member of the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment, and Society. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor for the journals Landscape Ecology and Discover Conservation and regularly reviews for the Journal of Open Source Software. His academic journey includes prestigious positions like the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and a Visiting Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University. James obtained his PhD in Geography, an MSc in Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Management, and a BSc with Honours in Geography from King's College London. His research interests include landscape change from farming and forestry, wildfire-environment-society interactions, and agent-based modelling for understanding geographical systems.

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