I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History, advised jointly by Drs. Jonathan Bloch, Arthur Porto, Paul Morse, and Natasha Vitek. I am employed under an NSF EAR Grant to help develop novel AI workflows that can assess the effects of climate change on mammalian functional diversity over the most dramatic global warming event in the past 66 million years.

More broadly, I study the environmental and evolutionary processes responsible for behavioral innovation in extinct mammals and reptiles. I pursue this work using a combination of classic paleontology methods, phylogenetic machine-learning algorithms, and 3D modeling techniques.

I received my PhD in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University in 2025, where my dissertation research focused on the evolution of aquatic and macrocarnivorous lifestyles in reptiles. I received my BA in Biology and Philosophy with Honors at Bowdoin College in 2014.