Currently, I am a data scientist at the Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke Law.

I was a postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Charles Mitchell’s lab at the University of North Carolina. I used data from field experiments to test for historical contingency in parasite community assembly and simultaneously assessed the role of ecological drift in driving community divergence. My overarching research goal was to understand how parasite communities assemble across biological scales.

I completed my PhD at Rutgers University in the Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program with Dr. Peter Morin. My dissertation research was funded by an NSF- GRF, and focused on the effects of space and energy on parasite communities in freshwater ecosystems.

I have ten years of research experience on infectious disease spread in animal and plant systems, with an expertise in statistics, programming, and data management. I also have a passion for education and self-developed at parasitology course as a postdoc at UNC.

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