Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut. As a behavioral and evolutionary economist, my research centers on understanding the evolution of risk preferences, and draws on theoretical and empirical approaches from a variety of fields concerned with decision-making under uncertainty. At UConn I teach Behavioral Economics, Microeconomic Theory, and run the Historic Risk Lab. I also co-organize our Microeconomics seminar and am a faculty affiliate of the UConn Cognitive Science Program.

I received my PhD in Economics from the University of California San Diego. Before graduate school I also had an active career in applied risk-taking as a long-distance backpacker and Thru-Hiker.