Photo: Emi Casare

I'm an evolutionary biologist, with most of my research anchored in museum collections and ornithology. I am especially interested in speciation, both in the population genetic processes that drive it and macroevolutionary and 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. 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'm also a big fan of learning about new models and algorithms, and programs that implement them.

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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