ACADEMIC POSITIONS
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Postdoctoral Research Associate, March 2024 - present
Bielefeld University, Germany
Department of Animal Behaviour
Postdoctoral fellow, 2018-2023
Humboldt Researcher (2020-2023)
Bielefeld Young Researcher (2018-2019)
Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Faculty of Social Sciences
Lecturer (part-time, 2016-2018)
DEGREES AND QUALIFICATIONS
University of California – Los Angeles
Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Anthropology, December 2015
thesis: Kin recognition, mechanisms, and inbreeding avoidance in Cebus capucinus
Master of Arts, Department of Anthropology, June 2010
thesis: Testing Westermarck's hypothesis in a wild primate population: proximity during early development as a mechanism of inbreeding avoidance in white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus)
The College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Arts, Dept. of Psychology and Dept. of Environmental Studies, May 2005
with Distinction in Psychology and with Distinction in Environmental Studies
thesis: The development of effective social behaviors in the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater)
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
EXTERNAL
2019 Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers (2.5-year)
2016 International Society for Behavioral Ecology travel award
2012 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (~$15,000)
2012 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Research Grant ($13,500)
2012 American Society of Primatologists Ruppenthal Student Travel Award ($500)
2011 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant ($20,000)
2010 International Society for Human Ethology Owen F. Aldis Scholarship ($8,000)
2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (3-year)
2009 Ford Foundation Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship (3-year)
INTERNAL
2018-2019 Bielefeld Young Researcher’s Fund grant (1-year)
2011-2012 UCLA Department of Anthropology conference travel grant
2011-2012 UCLA Department of Anthropology research grant
2010-2011 UCLA Department of Anthropology conference travel grant
2009-2010 UCLA Department of Anthropology conference travel grant
2009-2010 UCLA Department of Anthropology research grant
2009 NSF UC DIGSSS Summer Research Mentorship award
2008 Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program research award
2008-2009 UCLA Department of Anthropology research grant
2008 NSF AGEP Competitive Edge Summer research award
2008 Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship (5-year, tuition & fees)