CV

 Positions

  • Associate Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto (2014-current)
  • Radcliffe Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (2019-2020)
  • Sabbatical Visitor, Department of Evolution & Ecology, University of California, Davis
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto (2009-2014)
  • Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows (2006-2009)

Education

  • Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, Stanford University (2006)
  • A.B. magna cum laude with Highest Honors in Biology, Harvard University (2001)

Research Support

Current Grants:

  • Gordon and Betty Moor Foundation, Symbiosis in Model Systems Grant (2020-2022). Co-PIs: D. Sinton, C. Rochman
  • Rotman School of Management, Institude for Gender and the Economy (GATE) Research Grant (2020-2021) Co-PIs: P. Radhakrishnan, S.M. Toh, K. Kirby
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Discovery Grant (2015-2021)

Past Grants:

  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Research Tools and Instruments Grant (2019-2021). Co-applicant: A. Cutter
  • University of Toronto, XSeed: Expanding Our Research Impact Through Inter-Disciplinary Collaboration (2018-2020). Co-PI: E. Passeport
  • University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science Undergraduate Research Excursion and Research Opportunity Programs (2010-2019)
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Discovery Accelerator Supplement (2015-2018)
  • Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, Early Researcher Award (2012-2017)
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Discovery Grant (2012-2017)
  • Templeton Fund, Foundational Questions in Evolutionary Biology Award (2012). Co-investigators: N.E. Pierce (PI, Harvard), A. Pringle (co-PI, Harvard)
  • Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, Early Research Award (2012-2017)
  • Connaught New Researcher Award (2011-2013)
  • NSERC Discovery Grant (2010-2015)
  • Canada Foundation for Innovation, Leaders Opportunity Fund Award (2009-2011)
  • Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, Ontario Research Fund Award (2009-2011)
  • William F. Morton Fund of Harvard University Award (2007-2008)

Fellowships and Awards

  • Radcliffe Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
  • Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
  • Frances Lou Kallman Award for excellence in coursework, teaching, and research from Stanford University’s Dept. of Biological Sciences (2006)
  • NSERC Post-Graduate Studies B Scholarship (2003-2005)
  • NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (2003, declined)
  • Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Gabilan Fellow (2001-2004)
  • NSERC Post-Graduate Studies A Scholarship (2001-2003)
  • Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Undergraduate Honors Thesis at Harvard College (2001)
  • Certificate in Latin American Studies from Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (2001)

Field Courses Completed

  • The Ant Course, taught by the California Academy of Sciences in Costa Rica (2004)
  • Tropical Plant Systematics, taught by the Organization for Tropical Studies in Costa Rica (2004)

Teaching

Undergraduate lecture, seminar, and field courses:

  • EEB 403: Tropical Field Biology
  • EEB 440: Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Animal Interactions
  • EEB 321: Community Ecology
  • EEB 495: Seminar in Ecology
  • BIO120: Adaptation and Biodiversity

Undergraduate research project courses:

  • EEB299/397/399/497/498/499/

Graduate courses:

  • EEB1412: Special Topics in Ecology: Plant-Animal Interactions
  • EEB1320: Ecology

Short courses:

  • Introduction to the Biology and Systematics of Neotropical Ants

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