I am a community ecologist with broad interests in savanna ecology, species interactions, paleo ecology, plant and animal traits, and animal nutrition. Intellectually, I am particularly interested in how organismal-level tradeoffs generate emergent ecological patterns at the levels of ecosystems and biomes.
Currently, I am a postdoc at Wake Forest University, in the lab of T. Michael Anderson, where I am studying the ecology and evolution of Acacia trees in Africa. This research is conducted together with collaborators at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, in Arusha, Tanzania.
I received my PhD in 2022 in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. My dissertation research focused on causes and consequences of diet selection by large mammalian herbivores in Gorongosa National Park.
