CV

Download PDF

Academic appointments

• Jan 2027Incoming Postdoctoral Researcher, Yale University
  with Martina Dal Bello, in collaboration with Jacopo Grilli
• 2025 –Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
  Laboratories of Melissa Duhaime and Luis Zaman
• 2023 – 2025Academic Affiliate, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University
  Laboratory of Mercedes Pascual
• 2019 – 2025Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago
  Laboratory of Mercedes Pascual
• 2015 – 2016Graduate Student Researcher, Universitat de Barcelona
  Laboratory of Jorge Russo

Education

• 2025Ph.D., Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago
  Thesis: The Coevolution of Complex Microbial Phenotypes
• 2020M.S., Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago
• 2016M.S., Particle Physics & Gravitation, Universitat de Barcelona
• 2015B.S., Physics; B.A., Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Fellowships & awards

• 2021 – 2023GAANN Training Grant in Quantitative Ecology
• 2022The Microbiome Center Travel Award
• 2022The Brien O'Brien and Mary Hasten Scholarship Fund

Talks

• 2026Function of Evolving Systems Gordon Research Conference, Waterville Valley, NH
  The evolution of niche dimensionality due to frequency-dependent competition · talk selected from submitted posters
• 2026Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT
  The evolution of niche dimensionality due to frequency-dependent competition
• 202512th Aquatic Viruses Workshop, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
  Host competitive asymmetries accelerate viral evolution in a microbe–virus coevolutionary system
• 2025Theory Tea, Princeton University (invited)
  The role of host competition in CRISPR-mediated coevolution
• 2024Simons Foundation workshop, Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Highly Diverse Systems, New York (poster)
• 2023Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR
• 2023Microbiome Research Symposium, University of Chicago
• 2022ESA–CSEE Joint Meeting, Montréal, QC

Teaching & mentorship

• 2025Teaching Assistant, Ecology of Infectious Diseases, New York University
• 2021 – 2023Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago
  Mathematics of Evolution; Networks in Ecology & Evolution; Fundamentals of Ecology & Evolution
• 2020 – 2025Mentor to graduate students and a lab technician, University of Chicago and New York University

Service

• reviewerNature Communications, Current Biology, PLOS Computational Biology, npj Complexity, FEMS Microbiology
• 2022 – 2024Student Liaison, Disease Ecology section, Ecological Society of America
• 2020 – 2022DEI Committee, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago