Through research, biological field stations, and science policy, I work to better understand and conserve our planet’s biodiversity and natural environments
|
I am an evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist interested in the drivers, consequences, and evolution of animal societies. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter with Dr. Lauren Brent. As part of the ERC funded FriendOrigins project, I study multilevel selection for individual and group social behaviors in a long-studied free-living population of rhesus macaques.
I received my Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from UCLA in 2023. Studying in the Blumstein Lab, my dissertation was on the evolution of individual and group social behaviors with a multilevel selection perspective. I conducted this work in a wild population of yellow-bellied marmots studied since 1962 at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL). I am also a Research Scientist and former Instructor at RMBL and serve on the Research and Animal Care committees. I also serve on the Board of Directors for the Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) and am an Assistant Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Science Policy and Governance. |
