About MeI am a behavioral ecologist and Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Chen Lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Rochester.
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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
The second paper from my doctoral dissertation, titled Group augmentation underlies the evolution of complex sociality in the face of environmental instability, is now out in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
I presented part of my dissertation work in the Warder Clyde Allee Session for Best Student Paper Competition at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society in San Jose, Costa Rica. I won first prize, and really enjoyed meeting the other finalists and learning about everyone's amazing work!
I presented part of my dissertation work in the Warder Clyde Allee Session for Best Student Paper Competition at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society in San Jose, Costa Rica. I won first prize, and really enjoyed meeting the other finalists and learning about everyone's amazing work!