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Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Genomics, Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College (2023–present)
• NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, with Stony Brook University and University College Dublin (2021–2023)
• NIH IRACDA Fellow, Stony Brook University (2021–2022)
• Fulbright Scholar, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Spain (2020–2021)

Education

• Ph.D. Conservation Genomics, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2021). Conservation genomics of the threatened Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) in the Northern Appalachian–Acadian ecoregion
• M.S. Molecular Ecology, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2017). Stress response in African elephants and analysis of their post-release movements
• B.S. Biology, University of Connecticut (2013)

Selected funding

• Blakeslee Fund Endowment, Smith College (2024, 2025)
• American Federation for Aging Research TIME Fellowship, to M. Weber (2024)
• Horner Fund Endowment Summer Fellowship, to A. Batista (2024)
• NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (2020)
• UMass Amherst Natural History Collections (2018)
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Canada Lynx Status Investigation (2017)

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