I have been a post-doctoral researcher in Seirian Sumner’s lab (CBER) since November 2019. My research focuses on the evolution of social organization.

I investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying what makes a wasp social or not, using a combination of fieldwork, lab work, and bioinformatics. I received my Ph.D. in ant genomics from Queen Mary University of London, after four years of NERC DTP funding.

I am an experimental evolutionary ecologist and yeast geneticist and currently a research associate in GEE at UCL. My research uses microbial systems to address fundamental questions in evolution and ecology.  

A major part of my current work at UCL (at Profs. M. Reuter & J. Bahler labs) focuses on investigating the likelihood of success or failure of evolutionary rescue, i.e. adaptation to avoid population extinction, in complex, changing and stressful environments.

I am a postdoctoral cell and evolutionary genetics researcher in Chris Thomspon’s Lab in CLOE. I use the model Eukaryotic microbe Dictyostelium discoideum to answer fundamental questions about the evolution of multicellularity and cell fate choice as well as microbial interspecies interactions and symbioses.

I help run the fortnightly departmental seminar series, providing a platform for early career researchers to present and discuss their work with other members of the department.