James Harynuk is a professor of chemistry at the University of Alberta and one of the principal investigators for TMIC. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo in 2004, studying and developing tools in the then-emerging field of GC×GC. After completing postdoctoral research in Melbourne, Australia, he returned to Canada and joined the University of Alberta in 2007. His current research interests include metabolomics, fundamentals of and the development of new software tools for GC×GC.