I am a fourth year PhD student in Haven Wiley's lab at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. My research interests include animal communication, behavioral ecology, tropical ecology, and conservation biology.

My dissertation focuses on the evolution of acoustic signals for animal communication and investigates the evolution of species specific acoustic signals in relation to ambient noise and the signals of other species in the same community. My field research is conducted at the Rio Cristalino ecolodge in the southern Amazonian rainforest of Brazil.