I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. My dissertation aims to understand how evolving populations sustain continual adaptation in a changing environment using a mix of computational, theoretical, and experimental methods.

More broadly, I’m interested in,

• Understanding how living systems (real or artificial) evolve and adapt to environmental challenge in creative ways,
• Studying how we can steer adaptation down certain pathways using synthetic biology and directed evolution to find solutions to modern day problems, and
• Developing undergraduate and graduate coursework that emphasizes strong interdisciplinarity in the study of life.

An idea of the kind of problems that interest me can be gathered from the research page. My free time is generally spent reading, tinkering, listening to music, or learning new things (to tinker with).