We are a group of integrative organismal biologists.

We want to understand how animals make and act on decisions. How do competitors decide to escalate a fight, how do their bodies deliver and receive forces, and how do they decide to give up? How do these and other decisions affect resource use in nature, and how will this ecology change in future climates?

While we are motivated by the broad goal of understanding life on earth, our findings may lead to unexpected outcomes, like developing impact-resistant materials or understanding how climate change will affect behavior and physiology.

 

Prospective lab members!

Thanks for your interest in our research group! I am accepting PhD student applications for the 2025 application cycle. Please see the Brown EEOB Graduate Education Webpage for more information on applying to the PhD program, including helpful links to other resources. Before you apply, please read a few papers on our Publications page and think carefully about how your research interests align with mine. I am currently unable to hold Zoom conversations with prospective students, as I will be on parental leave starting early October. However, I encourage students with a good fit to my research interests to consider applying. I will be most likely to later interview students who can show a good match between their research interests and my own, including an understanding of working in the lab will help move their careers forward.

Though I currently don’t have funding for a postdoc, I am happy to consider supporting fellowship applications for postdoctoral scholars. Please contact me with (1) your CV, (2) a brief (few paragraph at most) statement of research overlap, (3) a copy of at least one publication (in press is fine), and (4) an idea of a fellowship application we could work toward. I am unlikely to consider postdocs that do not send all of the four materials described above. I’ve worked with a collaborator to develop a guideline for crafting these types of messages, here.

I am always interested in collaborating with undergraduate or K-12 scholars, so please feel free to send me an email! Please note that there can sometimes be limited opportunities in my group, though I will attempt to provide (hopefully, funded) opportunities to as many people as possible.