My research deals with mathematical models of sexual selection, specifically with the interplay of sexual selection and life histories. I am interested in the evolution of condition-dependence, age-dependence and how age affects the currencies of sexual selection models.
I am a Ph.D. student studying with Maria Servedio in the Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology program at UNC Chapel Hill. I graduated from the University of Colorado in Boulder, my hometown, with a double-degree in Population Biology and Mathematics in 2002. My undergraduate research included a thesis on nest-site selection and territory selection in Lark Sparrows Chondestes grammacus strigatus, a medium-sized grassland songbird. From 2005 to 2008, I worked as a biostatistician in the Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, conducting research on the diagnoses and treatment of mental disorders.