I’m an evolutionary biologist with broad interests in the ancient history of biodiversity and its future conservation. I completed my Ph.D. on biogeography with N.B. Simmons at Columbia University, sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. My dissertation focused on the links between phylogenetics and environmental change at geological timescales. My work on biodiversity conservation has focused on risks arising from agricultural expansion in northern South America. Beginning in 2004, I conducted research in genomics of E. coli at Ochman lab and Plasmodium at the Perkins lab. In 2007 I became a lecturer at the Open University, and moved back to the US in 2008 as CIDER Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolution of SUNY Stony Brook.

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