About & CV

Link to CV: Curriculum Vitae

(Me in Friday Harbor, WA!)

As noted in the home page, I am a first-year PhD student in the Animal Behavior Graduate Group and the Combes Lab at the University of California, Davis. My research interests are iterated in more detail in Research; here is where you get to learn more about me.

Before coming to California, I did my undergrad in math and physics with a biology minor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. I had a pretty nonlinear trajectory entering as a biology major, doing a total 180 and getting interested in pure math, and eventually settling down in this weird but awesome middle ground we call biomechanics thanks to Amy Johnson’s biomechanics course.

I occasionally go outside: rock climbing, biking, and birding are the big ones. I also enjoy reading pop science from all fields. Bernd Heinrich, John McPhee, and Steven Vogel were some of my biggest influences for getting into writing.