Dr. Wickham is an entomologist and chemical ecologist. He graduated with a PhD in Environmental and Forest Biology from the State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) in Syracuse, New York, USA, and was awarded a US National Science Foundation International Research Fellowship (NSF-IRFP) to conduct postdoctoral research at the Institute of Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is now an assistant professor at the Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an adjunct professor at the Department of Entomology, Rutgers University, and managing editor at Integrative Zoology.