Current Appointments

• Assistant Curator of Paleomammalogy, Department of Geology, The Field Museum


• Lecturer, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago


• Honorary Research Associate, Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, University of the Witwatersrand

Professional Biography

• Postdoctoral Researcher, 11/2006 to 8/2007, Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, California Academy of Sciences


• Lecturer, 1/2007 to 6/2007, Dept. of Geosciences, San Francisco State University


• Royal Society USA/Canada Research Fellow, 11/2005 to 11/2006, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol


• NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Interdisciplinary Informatics, 9/2003 to 8/2005, Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, California Academy of Sciences


• Ph.D., Integrative Biology, 2003, University of California, Berkeley


• B.S. (with distinction), Biology/Geology, 1998, University of Michigan

Research Interests

• Paleobiology of anomodont therapsids


• End-Permian mass extinction


• Evolutionary morphology of the turtle shell


• Trophic network-based approaches to understanding extinction and community evolution


• Geometric morphometrics


• The reciprocal relationship between phylogenetics and biostratigraphy


• Phylogenetic taxonomy