I use computational approaches to understand how populations change through time in response to evolutionary and demographic processes.

 

During my Ph.D. in the Huber Lab at The Pennsylvania State University, I studied systems where genomic data alone are insufficient to reconstruct the past or predict future evolutionary trajectories. My work examined how demography, gene flow, and selection shape genetic variation, including research on purifying selection and genes under constraint within the human genome. More broadly, I am interested in how integrative approaches can reveal evolutionary processes that cannot be directly observed.

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As a postdoctoral researcher in the vonHoldt Lab at Princeton University, I will study red wolf conservation genomics, with a particular interest in using these integrative approaches to study “ghost wolves”—canids that retain red wolf ancestry outside the currently managed red wolf population.

 

I completed my Ph.D. at The Pennsylvania State University in the Summer of 2026. Prior to that, I completed my B.S. with Interdisciplinary Honors at the University of New Hampshire in 2021, where I addressed biases in transcriptome and genome assembly as part of the MacManes Lab.