My primary research interest focuses on the leveraging of qualitative taphonomic descriptions, petrographic taphonomy, and paleoenvironmental data to constrain the phylogeny and macroevolutionary patterns of enigmatic Ediacaran organisms, with a particular focus on Ediacaran tubular taxa and their role in the faunal turnovers within the Ediacaran Period and across the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary. 

I am additionally interested in the role that organic matgrounds played in the shaping of the Precambrian stratigraphic record and Ediacaran paleobiology. 

Both research topics are connected by my central interest in furthering understanding of the taphonomic overprint that characterizes the Ediacaran fossil record, how this overprint varies across paleoenvironmental settings and across lifeforms, from complex multicellular animals to simple microbial ecosystems, and how we can overcome the bias imparted by taphonomic overprint to correctly interpret the Ediacaran fossil record.