Professional biography

Here are brief descriptions of my eduction and training, honors and awards, and professional affiliations:

  • I hold a BA in Biology from Swarthmore College, where I was a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar and Morris K. Udall Scholar (2001-2005). I received my PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Stanford University, where I was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Bing-Mooney Fellow in Environmental Science and Conservation (2008-2014). I completed postdoctoral training at the University of Arizona and the University of Utah (2014-2016) before moving to the Carnegie Institution (2016-2024). I am now starting at University of Kansas (2024 and forward).

  • My research has been recognized with the Leo M. Leva Memorial Thesis Prize from Swarthmore College (2005), the Dwight Billings Award for Physiological Ecology from the Ecological Society of America (2014), and a New (Early Career) Investigator award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (2021).

  • I am a member of the American Geophysical Union (2008 to present), the Ecological Society of America (2009 to present), the American Society of Plant Biologists (2019 to present), and the International Society of Photosynthesis Research (2019 to present).

If you’re looking for more information about my professional profile, you can find details on the following sites:

  • My ORCID profile can be viewed here.

    ORCID, which stands for Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is a global, not-for-profit organization that strives to enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their contributions, and their affiliations. The ORCID ID is a unique, persistent identifier that you can use to verify that particular scholarly contributions are in fact associated with me.

  • My Google Scholar profile is here.

    Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search the scholarly literature, and Google Scholar Profiles provide a simple way for authors to showcase their academic publications. You can find my peer-reviewed papers as well as conference abstracts, check who is citing them, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics.

  • My GitHub profile is here.

    Git is free and open source software for tracking changes in any set of files, and GitHub, Inc., is an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git. In the repositories linked to my GitHub profile, you can find and contribute to codes that I’ve developed.

  • My Twitter profile is here.

    Twitter is a free platform for social networking that allows people to connect with one another and communicate with a big audience through the exchange of short messages called “Tweets.” I use Twitter to keep up with and share the latest information about scientific topics that I am interested in and/or working on.

  • My LinkedIn profile is here.

    LinkedIn is also a social networking platform, but it’s different than Twitter because it is specifically for professional networking. I use LinkedIn for connecting to colleagues in academia, government, NGOs, and industry.

  • My KU EEB profile is here.