I am an Evolutionary Biologist and Behavioral Ecologist, currently working on my PhD in the Rubenstein Lab within the Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. My research aims to advance our understanding of the evolution of complex social behavior and communication.

My current work explores the factors that influence individual social decisions and responses to environmental change in superb starlings (Lamprotornis superbus) residing in large complex cooperative societies in the African savanna.

In the past I have studied female iridescent ornamentation as a signal for social status in Indian peafowl. I have also studied movement ecology of lesser long-nosed bats, and the influence of reef sounds on larval coral reef fish settlement behavior.