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Abridged CV

Appointments

• Aug 2018 – present. Assistant Research Scientist, Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Jan 2018 – Aug 2018. National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, George Washington University Visiting Scholar and Smithsonian Fellow. Sponsored by Guillermo Ortí.
• 2016 – 2017. Emory University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Whale Shark Genomics. Supervised by Timothy D. Read (Emory University) and Alistair D. M. Dove (Georgia Aquarium).

Education

• 2016. Auburn University, Ph.D, Biological Sciences. Supervised by Jonathan W. Armbruster.
• 2009. University of Delaware, B.S., Biological Sciences with Concentration in Ecology and Organismal Biology, Honors Degree With Distinction. Minors in Marine Studies, Business Administration.

Grants and Fellowships

• 2024. National Science Foundation: Division of Environmental Biology: “Collaborative Research: Biogeography and Ecology of Diversification After a Transcontinental Freshwater Fish Migration.”
• 2022. Illinois Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Preservation Fund: Division of Environmental Biology: “Evaluating Species Distributions and Population Connectivity of Illinois’ Spring Cavefish (Forbesichthys spp.) using Genomics.”
• Co-PI: 2020. Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMRR) Program Science in Support of Management>/b>: “Augmenting the UMRR fish vital rates project with greater species representation for genetics and otolith microchemistry.”</li>
• Co-PI: 2020. Illinois Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Preservation Fund: “Evaluating Population Genomic Heterogeneity for the Illinois’ Remnant Mottled Sculpin (Cottus bairdi).”
• 2017. National Science Foundation: Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology in Research Using Biological Collections: “Evolution of Defensive Traits and Diversification in Catfishes.”
• 2013-2015. Auburn University, Cellular & Molecular Biosciences Peaks in Excellence Research Fellowship.
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• 2017. Ernst Mayr Symposium, Society of Systematic Biologists, Evolution 2017, Portland, OR.
• 2015. All Cypriniformes Species Inventory Symposium, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Reno, NV.
Departmental Seminars
• 2023. Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• 2021. Department of Biological Sciences, Cal Poly Pomona.
• 2018. Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University.
• 2018. Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• 2017. Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida.
• 2017. Emory University, Population Biology, Ecology & Evolution.