Dr James G Dyke BA, MSc, DPhil
Visiting Academic
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Dr James G Dyke is a Visiting Academic within Geography and Environmental Science at the ºÚÁÏÉç.
I model the Earth system in order to try to understand how it works and how humans interact with it.
I joined the ºÚÁÏÉç in 2011 based in the Agents, Interaction and Complexity group within Electronics & Computer Science. My main role was as a tutor and then Acting Director of the Institute for Complex Systems Simulation Doctoral Training Centre. I transferred to Geography & Environmental Science in August 2014.
My previous job at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry was centrered around the Helmholtz Alliance project that was coordinated by the . I am still a member of the NASA Astrobiology Focus Group Thermodynamics, Disequilibrium and Evolution.
More recently I've become interested in how a particular species is affecting the Earth and what that may mean for life now and in the future. Anthropogenic Climate Change has become something of a cause célèbre but other impacts that Homo sapiens are having on the Earth system are arguably as profound and long lasting.
I'm a co-chair of Sustainability Science Southampton which is an internationally recognised centre of interdisciplinary research excellence advancing the understanding of sustainability science towards alleviating some of society's global dilemmas.