CV
Professional Appointments
2025 onwards: Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, Australian National University.
2023-2025: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU)
2020-2023: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH Zürich) and Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape (WSL)
2019-2020: Research Assistant at the Australian National University (ANU)
Education
PhD, Australian National University. July 2016 to February 2020 – Supervised by Marcel Cardillo
Bachelor of Science (Honours), Australian National University, Canberra, 2015.
Publications
Google Scholar
Invited Talks
University of Wollongong, New South Wales (2024)
Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series, Australian National University (2023).
Biogeography of Tropical Asia Sysmposium, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2023).
Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale. Understanding the evolution of biodiversity with process-based simulation models (2022).
Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine (LECA). Inferring the tempo and mode of speciation using simulation-based approaches (2022).
British Ecological Society Macroecology Meeting, St. Andrews, United Kingdom (2018), Student Plenary Award.
Tempo and Mode Seminar Series, Australian National University (2018).
Conference Talks and Presentations
The Third AsiaEvo conference, Singapore (2023)
Biology ’22. Meeting of the Swiss Zoological, Botanical, and Systematics Societies (2022)
(Virtual) British Ecological Society Macroecology Meeting (2021)
(Virtual) Evolution (2021)
World Congress of Herpetology, Dunedin, New Zealand (2020)
International Biogeography Society Meeting, Malaga, Spain (2019)
Poster: Australasian Evolution Society, Sydney, Australia (2019)
British Ecological Society Macroecology Meeting, St. Andrews, United Kingdom (2018)
ANU Research School of Biology HDR Student Conference (2016, 2017, 2018).
Organised Symposia
Biotic interchanges across taxa through molecular and fossil data. 3rd Joint Congress of Evolutionary Biology, 2024, Montreal, Canada
Awards and Grants
Discovery Early Career Research Award, Australian Research Council (2025) - DE250100004: How environmental change drives the origin and decline of biodiversity - $486,675
Research School of Biology Early Career Researcher Travel top-up grant, Australian National University (2024) - $2,000
Early Career Researcher Travel Grant, Australian National University (2024) - $3,000
Training support Grant, Centre for Biodiversity Analysis (2023) - $10,000
Best Poster Award, Australasian Evolution Society Conference, UNSW (2019) - $100
Vice-Chancellor’s HDR Travel Grants, Australian National University (2019) - $5,000
Student Plenary Award, British Ecological Society Macroecology Meeting, St Andrews, Scotland (2018) - $500
Graduate Student Research Award, Society of Systematic Biologists (2018) - $2,500
Reviews
Publons; Nature Ecology and Evolution, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Ecology Letters, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Evolution, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Journal of Biogeography, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Biodiversity and Conservation, PLOS One
Teaching
2023-2024: Guest Lecturer, Australian National University.
BIOL3206 Macroevolution and Macroecology
2020-current: Teaching assistant ETH Zurich
701-1679-00L Spatial Modelling: From Climate & Land Use Change to Biodiversity Conservation
2019: Guest Lecturer, Australian National University.
BIOL3206 Macroevolution and Macroecology
2016-2019: Teaching assistant, Australian National University.
BIOL3206 Evolution of Biodiversity
ENVS1003 Introduction to Environmental and Social Research
BIOL2161 Principals of Genetics
BIOL8702 Advanced Research Techniques