John is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Research in Earth and Space Science and the Director of the Earth and Space Science program at York University. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, a recipient of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute’s McCurdy Award and served as the Science Advisor to the President of the Canadian Space Agency from 2022-2024. John holds a BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Planetary Science. An author on over 100 articles in planetary science, John has also been a member of five NASA and ESA-led space mission teams. His first book, “Daydreaming in the Solar System” co-authored with Prof. Jesse Rogerson was published by the MIT Press in 2024.