A. Bradley Duthie is a Lecturer in Environmental Modelling at the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK. He completed undergraduate degrees in Biology and Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He earned his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Iowa State University with a graduate minor in Statistics. His research focuses primarily on theory and modelling in ecology and evolutionary biology with particular interests in evolutionary ecology and community ecology. He contributes to several research projects as a biostatistician and wrote and maintains two R packages for agentbased modelling.