Photo: Diana Macias

I'm an evolutionary biologist, with most of my research anchored in museum collections and ornithology. I am especially interested in speciation at many levels, spanning the genomic processes that drive it, the ecological factors that facilitate it, and the geographic patterns that influence it. My primary focus is on island systems, which provide a natural laboratory to study how populations diverge in geographic allopatry in a (relatively) predictably variable context. I also dabble in terrestrial systems, especially New Mexico. My main research interests often lie in the middle grounds between phylogeography and population genetics. I also enjoy many of the computational angles of evolutionary biology, especially high performance computing, simulations, and troubleshooting population genomics analyses.

I am currently an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow based at Texas Tech University, where I am co-sponsored by Dr. Joe Manthey (Texas Tech) and Dr. Philipp Messer (Cornell). I completed my Ph.D with Dr. Mike Andersen at the University of New Mexico and Museum of Southwestern Biology, where I am currently a research associate.

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