Link to CV (last updated Sept 17, 2025): Curriculum Vitae

Brady!
(Above: Me at False Bay in Friday Harbor, WA.)


I grew up in Ocean County, New Jersey, where I spent a lot of time birding and otherwise enjoying the wonderful combination of the coast and the pine barrens (a very unique habitat with its largest expanse in southern NJ). I went to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine for undergrad, where I studied mathematics and physics with a minor in ecology and evolutionary biology. Throughout college my interests shifted through a wide variety of things from pure math to field ecology. In my junior year I took a course in biomechanics from Amy Johnson, and learned that there are so many ways that living organisms interact with the physical world that we don’t quite understand yet. I spent the following summer and then my senior year working on my senior thesis where I looked at a gait transition in sea stars through a few different mathematical lenses. After graduating, I spent a summer at The UW Friday Harbor Labs taking a course on ecological biomechanics, then moved out here to Davis, California to start my PhD in animal behavior working with Stacey Combes.

Since coming to Davis, I’ve spent lots of time learning how to formally study animal behavior, observing insects in their natural habitats, and playing with turbulence both in equation form and in the real world. My goal for my PhD research is to use creative methods to study how insects interact with unsteady winds, from the scale of a single bee to entire communities.

Outside of work, I like birding (and taking photos of birds), riding my bike, climbing, and painting.