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 a Ph.D student in the Andersen Lab at the University of New Mexico, and actively work in the Museum of Southwestern Biology.

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