Marie-Josée Fortin is a University Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Spatial Ecology. Her research is at the interface of spatial ecology and conservation biology including modelling connectivity in urban environments, ecosystem services, and forest resilience. Marie-Josée is co-author of Quantitative Analysis of Ecological Networks (Cambridge University Press, 2021).