I am a curator in the Department of Herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History where I investigate the evolution and ecology of reptiles and amphibians. I work on global snake evolution and genomics.
Interested students
I am always interested in taking good graduate students via our own doctoral program at the AMNH RGGS, or through our partner programs at Columbia and CUNY. Please contact me below and be ready to discuss a research project.
My research helps understand how speciation works, what processes produce patterns of species richness, and how regional and local communities are formed. Within this research framework, I investigate population genetics, phylogeography, and systematics of snakes using genomic, morhpological and ecological data. I also examine how traits have influenced both species diversification and the regional assemblage of taxa across space and time. To generate realistic models and properly address questions within major areas of ecology and evolutionary biology, I develop methods to integrate genomic, environmental and morphological data.