About MeI am a behavioral ecologist and Ph.D. candidate in the Rubenstein Lab in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology at Columbia University.
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Research
My research aims to understand the evolution and adaptive value of social behavior, using birds as a model group. My current work investigates sociality in superb starlings, a cooperatively breeding species found in East Africa. Previously, I have studied vocal communication in herring gulls and fairywrens.
Read more about my research here and check out the video below: a short piece on my current research produced by Cornell University students with support from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Read more about my research here and check out the video below: a short piece on my current research produced by Cornell University students with support from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Latest News
I wrote a blog post summarizing the main takeaways from our workshop at the American Ornithological Society's 2019 meeting – Writing Successful Proposals for Small Grants – for the society's blog, Wing Beats.
I presented my poster – Alternative Male Reproductive Tactics in a Plural Cooperative Breeder – at the Animal Behavior Society's 2019 meeting at the University of Illinois (Chicago). It was a jam-packed four days with some really exciting research presentations as well as a bit of obligatory Chicago sight-seeing!
I presented my poster – Alternative Male Reproductive Tactics in a Plural Cooperative Breeder – at the Animal Behavior Society's 2019 meeting at the University of Illinois (Chicago). It was a jam-packed four days with some really exciting research presentations as well as a bit of obligatory Chicago sight-seeing!