PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Akademische Rätin / Research Associate
2023 - present
EDUCATION
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
August 2018 - May 2023
University of Dayton
B.S. Biology summa cum laude with Honors
August 2015 - May 2018
FUNDING
Fellowships
Supplemental Summer Block Grant ($4,166) - 2020
Illinois Distinguished Fellowship ($75,000) - 2018
Awards
BioNa Early Career Award (€ 12,196) - 2026
LMUexcellent Postdoc Support Fund/Bits and Pieces (€ 2,240) - 2026
LMUexcellent Postdoc Support Fund/Bits and Pieces (€ 536) - 2025
Isabel Norton Award ($1,000) - 2022
Isabel Norton Award ($1,000) - 2021
Odum-Kendeigh Summer Research Award ($1,000) - 2021
Graduate College Conference Award ($100) - 2020
Francis M and Harlie M Clark Research Support Grant ($1000) - 2020
Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant ($4,888.40) - 2020
American Ornithological Society Research Grant ($2,500) - 2019
Champaign County Audubon Society Kendeigh Grant ($1,000) - 2019
Francis M and Harlie M Clark Research Support Grant ($1,000) - 2019
Philip W. Smith Memorial Fund Award ($1000) - 2019
American Ornithology Society Membership - 2019
Teaching Excellence Award - FA & SP 2019-2020
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
International Society for Behavioral Ecology (IBSE), Turin IT, 2026
TALK: Does individual variation in parent predation risk mediate offspring life history in response to experimental predator playback?
Hole-nesting Birds Conference, Olomouc CZ, 2025
TALK: Causes of offspring trait variation within and between broods in blue and great tits
International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Melbourne AUS, 2024
TALK: Nosy neighbors: Does nest prospecting behavior increase current or future reproductive success?
Behaviour, Bielefeld DE, 2023
TALK: Sexual size dimorphism of brood parasites does not affect host survival, size, or fledging phenology
International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Stockholm SE, 2022
TALK: Host parents respond to parasitic nestling alarm calls regardless of experience with brood parasitism
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Guest Editor - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (2020)
Article Peer Review
Animal Behaviour • Behavioral Ecology (x3) • Biology Letters (x2) • Current Zoology (x2) • Ecology and Evolution (x4) • IBIS (x4) • Integrative Zoology • Journal of Avian Biology • Journal of Field Ornithology (x2) • Ornithology • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (x2) • PLOS
Publications, Teaching, and Mentorship can be found on other tabs.