Doctoral Life in Progress 

I’m a PhD candidate in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where I study how climate change alters the biodiversity — through the lens of genetics, species distributions, and evolutionary dynamics. My research bridges macroecology and population genetics, and I use data-intensive approaches to explore how life persists, shifts, or disappears under changing environmental pressures.

My current work centers on understanding the spatial patterns of genetic diversity across North American mammals and simulating how dispersal traits evolve in response to climate change. I integrate climate projections, species traits, and genetic data into Bayesian models and spatial simulations. I’m particularly interested in how generation length shapes a species’ ability to track changing environments, and what that means for conservation in a warming world.