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I am a broadly trained plant evolutionary ecologist working at the interface of theory and empirical biology. My research covers four main areas united by the application of mathematics and modeling to evolutionary biology:

• Comparative and population genomics, including my current work on the spruce and aspen genome projects at the Umeå Plant Sciences Centre, in Umeå, Sweden
• Pollen and seed dispersal in plant populations
• Consequences of somatic mutation in plants

I originally trained as a computer scientist with a minor in mathematics, and worked as a software engineer for several years in south Florida. The increased pace of botanical life and death at the edge of the tropics, in comparison to that of the temperate flora in my native Michigan, awoke the sleeping biologist within me. I returned to school, and was naturally drawn toward research in which I could apply my quantitative and programming skills. Because of my path toward research biology I also have a strong interest in natural history, especially the natural history of plants and birds, and in showing people the wonder of our natural world.