Biography:

Education

2002 Ph.D. Harvard University Biology
1999 M.A. Harvard University Biology
1997 B.A. University of Michigan Biology, Honors

Employment

2005-present Assistant Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
2002-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Fellow, University of Michigan Society of Fellows.
1999-2000 Research Assistant, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, Northern Hemisphere Biogeography, Drs Jianhua Li and Robert Cook
1997 NSF sponsored workshop in microtechniques, Harvard University Herbaria
1997 Research Assistant, University of Michigan Herbarium (specimen identification, database administration, type verification), Professor William R. Anderson
1996-97 Curatorial Assistant, University of Michigan Herbarium (collections management)
1996 Summer Intern, California Academy of Sciences, Geographic revision of the Mexican Pseuderanthemum (Acanthaceae), Dr. Thomas Daniel
1996 Research Assistant, University of Michigan Biomechanic Laboratories, Geriatric studies on gait and incontinence, Professors James Ashton-Miller and Albert Shultz
1991-94 Internships related to product design and biomechanics, General Motors Corporation (Environmental Engineering, Skilled Trades, Product Engineering, Ergonomic Engineering, Controls Engineering, Quality Engineering)

Field Experience

2008 Plant collection of Malpighiales, Bahia, Brazil
2007 Plant collection of Rafflesiacae, Malaysia
2007 Plant collection of Malpighiales, Bahia, Brazil
2006 Plant collection of Viscum album (Santalaceae), northern California.
2003 Plant collection of New World Malpighiaceae, Bahia, Brazil
2001 Plant collection and pollination ecology of Old World Malpighiaceae, Madagascar
2000, 2001 Plant collection and pollination ecology of Acridocarpus (Malpighiaceae), Tanzania, East Africa
1999-2000 Plant collection and pollination ecology of Acridocarpus (Malpighiaceae), Ghana, West Africa
1999 Plant collection and pollination ecology of Acridocarpus (Malpighiaceae), Cameroon, West Africa
1999 Ecological zonation in high Andean ecosystems, Venezuela, with Professor Peter Ashton
1998 Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS); Tropical Plant Systematics, Costa Rica
1995-96 Plant collector, Floristic inventory of Mt. Kinabalu, Malaysian Borneo, for Professor John H. Beaman (NSF Award Number DEB-9400888)

Dissertation

Title "Phylogeny, systematics, and biogeography of Acridocarpus and other Old World Malpighiaceae."
Advisor(s) Donald H. Pfister, Asa Gray Professor of Biology, Harvard University, 2001-02
Michael J. Donoghue, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor, Yale University, 1997-00

Abstract: