Ecology &
Evolutionary Biology

I am a computational evolutionary biologist with roots in paleobiology, molecular evolution, and phylogenetics. My research is focused on harnessing large-scale genomic and phenotypic datasets through the development of computational approaches to address fundamental evolutionary questions. I am particularly interested in understanding the evolutionary processes and patterns underlying the emergence of novel and complex phenotypic traits. In general, I seek to uncover the limits of our ability to infer the evolutionary processes that drove large-scale evolutionary patterns over deep time by combining information from genomes, phenotypes, and the fossil record.