Tadashi Fukami is an associate Professor of Biology and community ecologist at Stanford University.
[3] In an interview with Oikos Editorial Office, Fukami explains that even though he grew up near Tokyo, he would visit Wakayama with his family for vacation several times a year, sparking his interest in nature.
[5] In 2019, he was elected as a fellow to the Ecological Society of America for his "contributions to advancing community, ecosystem, and evolutionary ecology through a novel focus on historical contingency in community assembly".
[3] His work has also explored how historical contingency and priority effects influences the function as well as the structure of ecological communities.
[6][7] Fukami's research on community ecology, community assembly, alternate stable states and historical contingency has been published in multiple academic journals.