I'm a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at SUNY, Stony Brook and am primarily interested in evolutionary biology, especially the processes of evolutionary diversification and speciation.

The goal of my research is to help increase our understanding of how organisms diversify in nature. To accomplish this, I attempt to identify the factors that facilitate or constrain the evolution of biological diversity and quantify their relative importance. I don't restrict the meaning of the word "diversify" to an increase in the number of species, consequently I spend a good deal of time trying to understand the processes that lead to an increase in morphological and genetic diversity within species. I use many different tools to try to tease apart the complexity of biological systems, including traditional and geometric morphometrics to study variation among phenotypes, and genetic markers such as microsatellites or mitochondrial DNA sequences to study variation among genotypes. Most of my work involves fishes because I find them extraordinarily well suited for my purposes. However, my research interests are diverse and I am currently working on a number of different projects, both in temperate and tropical systems.