I am a disease ecologist interested in assessing the impacts of urbanization and synanthropic behavior on host–pathogen interactions with the aim to improve prediction of reservoir hosts and pathogen emergence.

I am an NSF Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oklahoma working in the Becker lab where I combine machine learning, field, and molecular techniques to predict and validate bat–virus family associations in the context of anthropogenic roosting behavior.

I completed my PhD in the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior program at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Lauren Ancel Meyers, PhD and Nicole Gottdenker DVM, MS, PhD, Dipl. ACVP.