About Me

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 Infrasturcture Group at the University of Zürich.

I use studies of vocal communication in wild-derived deer mice (genus Peromyscus) and free-living, wild lab mice (Mus musculus domesticus) to understand how and why animal behavior evolves.

You can find a complete list of my publications here.

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.

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.