I am an Evolutionary Biologist and Behavioral Ecologist. My research focuses on studying the evolution of sociality and how changing environmental conditions influence individual social decisions, group-living and movement patterns across different spatiotemporal scales and taxonomic groups.

I currently work in the Hein Lab within the Computational Biology department at Cornell University as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology studying the processes that link individual phenotypes, collective behavior and ecological function in group-living coral reef fish. For my PhD, I explored the mechanisms underlying individual variation in cooperative breeding behavior within superb starling societies in Kenya.

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