Nicholas J. Mills is a Professor of Insect Population Ecology at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1]

He was educated at the University of East Anglia where he received a BSc in Biological Sciences and a PhD in Population Ecology.^[2] He then undertook postdoctoral research at Lincoln College, Oxford. He was awarded a DANR Distinguished Service Award, Outstanding Faculty, in 1997, and a CNR Distinguished Teaching Award in 2002. He is also a Curator at the Essig Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Berkeley.^[3]