About James Santangelo: twitter - @JS_santangelo

James is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Marc Johnson and Rob Ness. His PhD is focused on understanding how plants are evolving in response to the environmental challenges imposed by the development of cities, and examining whether these responses are consistent across cities. When not engaged in research, James enjoys developing teaching resources for computer programming and data science, photography, playing video games, and all manner of outdoor activities (like botanizing!!). You can read more about his work on his website.