Professional Experience

2024 Grass Fellow

Neuroscience research fellowship supported by the Grass Foundation at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (Summer 2024)

Lecturer

(US equiv. Assistant Professor)

July 2020-present

Structure & Motion Laboratory, Royal veterinary college, University of London, London UK

Actually arrived in the UK in 2021 due to the global pandemic.

Visiting Assistant Professor at UBC July 2020—February 2021

The University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology, Vancouver, BC

  • Sensorimotor processing in hummingbirds & zebra finches — identification and functional characterization of neural pathways involved in navigation and complex locomotion.

Research Associate

2019-2020

AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship

Judicial Fellow

2017-2018

Federal judicial Center, Research Division, Washington, DC

  • Competitive fellowship, selected from a pool of established scientists

  • Designed and developed a multi-part web-based neuroscience & law program for federal judges and court officials. This program includes expert videos and other interactive content covering topics in neuroscience that may enter the courts

  • Developed a framework for using and evaluating evidence from emerging neurotechnologies

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

2013-2017

The University of British COlumbia, Department of Zoology & THe University of ALberta, Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, Vancouver, BC

  • Pioneered research investigating neural circuits involved in visual control of flight in hummingbirds and zebra finches

 University of New South Wales, School of History and Philosophy, Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • Summarized evidence, patents and news items related to major biotechnology litigation from the 1970s-1990s

  • Assembled a searchable database of primary documents to use as a research tool

Research Assistant

Education

Ph.D. Advanced Medicine

Macquarie University, Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Neuroscience and physiology

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

 Honors thesis in neuropharmacology and aggression.

B.A. Neuroscience