I am now a Doctor (Thesis Defense available: see in Miscellaneous)! I received my PhD for my work in the group of Molly Przeworski, in the Department of Human Genetics of the University of Chicago. I will be starting a post-doc shortly with Rasmus Nielsen in the Department of Integrative Biology of the University of California, Berkeley.

My research interests focus on investigating computational methods to understand speciation. How populations diverge and give rise to distinct species remains a fundamental question in evolutionary biology, with important implications for a wide range of fields, from conservation genetics to human evolution. As an approach to this question, I developed the program MIMAR, which uses summaries of polymorphism data at multiple loci surveyed in a pair of diverging populations or closely related species and, in contrast to previous methods, allows for intralocus recombination. I have also been interested in understanding great ape populations and species' demographic histories, which remain largely unknown. All the great ape populations and species have declined to the point that their long-term survival in the wild is in serious jeopardy. I hope that the additional knowledge will help the conservation and preservation of our closest living evolutionary relatives.