I am an early career evolutionary biology Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History with Hannah Wood, Ted Schultz, and Seán Brady at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. My research falls in the emerging field of biodiversity phenomics and focuses on applying comparative methods linking 3D data, biomechanics, ecology, and phylogenies to investigate the evolution of morphology in arthropods, particularly trap-jaw ants and spiders in a systems approach. My interest in the macroevolution of invertebrates originates from a fascination for their sheer diversity and disparity across evolutionary history.

Have a look at the Antscan initiative and repository.

Digital Morphology

3D models of 622 ant mandibles segmented from micro-CT scans.