About me

I am an interdisciplinary researcher interested in questions about how cultural behaviors spread, persist, and change over time. I develop automated data collection methods to uncover the mechanisms that link individual-level decision-making, social structures and processes, and the environment to culture. I study two urban adaptor species as models of animal culture: the great tit and sulphur-crested cockatoo, and use insights from empirical studies to inform theoretical models that are generalizable across species. In 2024, I was awarded the Richerson Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research by the Cultural Evolution Society. I am currently a postdoc at the Centre for Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz.

I am the developer of an R package for the Bayesian modeling of social transmission in networked populations: STbayes. If you’re interested in using it, please reach out.

In my spare time, I like to dj and make electronic music. Sometimes I post mixes and songs at yt channel and soundcloud!