I’m a postdoc in the Hoekstra Lab at Harvard University. I was also recently a visiting researcher with Anna Lindholm and the Linguistic Research Infrastructure Group at the University of Zürich.

My research uses vocal communication in wild-derived deer mice (genus Peromyscus) and free-living, wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) to understand how and why animal behavior evolves.

You can find a complete list of my publications on Google Scholar and detail about my most recent projects on GitHub. The datasets associated with these projects are freely available on Dryad. If you have questions about my work, I’m always happy to chat! Just send an email.

Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics

I organize a monthly virtual seminar series called Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics, which pairs talks from early career researchers studying the neuroscience and ecology of acoustic communication. You can follow us on Bluesky or sign up for our mailing list to get talk announcements.

Sound Recording

I enjoy finding and recording interesting natural soundscapes. You can listen to them at earth.fm, the Cities and Memory Project (you’ll have to zoom in on Boston, MA, USA), and SoundCloud.

Academic Background

I did my PhD with Kristin Scott at the University of California, Berkeley, where I characterized neural cell types in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster that couple internal sensing of hunger and thirst to balance sugar and water consumption. Before that, I made transgenic C. elegans as a research technician at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and studied the molecular pathways that guide migrating Drosophila melanogaster germ cells at Princeton University.