Marine Invertebrate Biologist

Currently, I am lecturer at California State University- Long Beach teaching Invertebrate Zoology and enjoying every minute of it! Most recently, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Halanych Lab at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington conducting research on Antarctic invertebrate ecology and evolution. In 2020, I defended my dissertation at Texas A&M University at Galveston in Dr. Anja Schulze’s Marine Invertebrate Lab focused on various aspects of the lifestyle of a common nuisance (potentially invasive) species in the Atlantic Ocean, the bearded fireworm.

I enjoy investigating how marine invertebrates have adapted and evolved to cope with environmental stressors, and am interested in studying these responses at all levels of scale, from genes to geographic distributions.