Sept. 2023 - present
Lecturer (faculty member, group leader)
University of East Anglia, School of Biological Sciences

Jan. 2023 - Aug. 2023
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Cincinnati, Dept. of Biological Sciences
Hosts: Michal Polak and Josh Benoit

Postponed
Invited Junior Fellow
Wissenschaftskolleg (Wiko), The Inst. for Advanced Study, Berlin
Contact: Janina Schirmer

2019 - 2022
International Postdoctoral Fellow, Swedish Research Council
University of Toronto, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Stockholm University, Dept. of Molecular Biosciences
Hosts: Aneil Agrawal (Toronto), Mattias Mannervik (Stockholm)

2018 - 2019
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Toronto, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Hosts: Aneil Agrawal (Toronto)

2012 - 2017
Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology
Uppsala University, Dept. of Ecology and Genetics
Supervisors: Göran Arnqvist, David Berger

2009 - 2012
M.S. in Biology
University of Cincinnati, Dept. of Biological Sciences
Supervisor: Michal Polak

2004 - 2009
B.S. in Biology
University of Cincinnati, Dept. of Biological Sciences
Supervisor (2007-2009): Michal Polak

I did my BS in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cincinnati (Ohio, U.S.) from 2004-2009, joining Michal Polak’s lab in 2007. I stayed in Mike’s lab for my MS from 2009-2012, using micron-scale laser surgery to investigate the pre- and post-copulatory adaptive function of male genital spines in the fruit fly Drosophila ananassae (top left). I then went on to do my PhD with Göran Arnqvist and David Berger in the Department of Ecology and Genetics at Uppsala University in Sweden from 2012-2017, using quantitative genetics to study the genetic architecture of sexually antagonistic genetic variation and the maintenance of sexual reproduction in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus (top right). After defending my thesis against Jacek Radwan, I got funded by the Swedish Research Council for a 3-year postdoc jointly hosted by Aneil Agrawal in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at the University of Toronto and Mattias Mannervik in the Department of Molecular Biosciences, the Wenner-Gren Institute (MBW) at Stockholm University. I am now an incoming faculty member at the University of East Anglia’s School of Biological Sciences, starting September 1, 2023. In the meantime I will be doing a short postdoc with Michal Polak and Josh Benoit at the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Biological Sciences.

Along the way I met my partner, Ruxandra Molnar, during her postdoc at Uppsala. We enjoy backpacking, rock climbing/bouldering, playing/coaching/reffing roller derby, and chasing after our shared fitness components.