I’m a postdoctoral researcher in Robin Hopkins’s plant evolution lab at Harvard University, where I study flowering plant genomics with a focus on systematics, speciation, hybridization, and computational methods. Whenever I can, I weave community science and natural history into my work, using the power of observation to spark new questions.
I earned my Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology at Columbia University in Dr. Deren Eaton’s lab, where I fell in love with plant evolution. In the field, I collected Pedicularis and Monarda and enjoyed the challenge of interpreting their complex evolutionary histories with modern genomic datasets and cutting-edge computational tools.
Before that, I studied Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee (go Vols!), with a minor in Mathematics. My interests there ranged from molecular biology to ecology and conservation, giving me a broad foundation for the questions I ask today.
Outside of research, I enjoy birding and botanizing, taking photos, dreaming up side projects, playing the banjo, and spending time with family.