Biologist

Current role

Since 2022, I have worked as a data scientist at Bayer Crop Science, studying bacteria and their genes that we might use to make agriculture work better for growers, consumers, and the environment.

University of Colorado Boulder

After obtaining my doctorate, I served as a postdoctoral research scientist at CU Boulder from 2016-2022 and maintain an active unpaid research affiliation through continued collaboration with the lab of my postdoc adviser, Dr. Steven K. Schmidt, in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department.

My research at CU Boulder focused on understanding the invisible microscopic life on and around glaciers, and its implications for life on this world and beyond:

Cryoconite holes in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys

University of Arizona

I obtained my PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from U of A in 2016