I’m a systems neuroscientist studying the neural mechanisms underlying cognition. I am particularly drawn to dynamic cognitive abilities utilized during natural behavior, such as chickadee food-caching behavior. I like to unlock novel research directions via tool development, with specialties in electrophysiological, optical, behavioral and computational methods.

My lab opens in 2026 at Yale Neuroscience, in affiliation with the Wu Tsai Institute and the Center for Neuroethology and Physiological Plasticity, and I am actively recruiting lab members to work on these topics. Please reach out to me directly if you would like to discuss postdoctoral opportunities in the lab. Graduate students are admitted through Yale’s INP program, and applicants should indicate their faculty interest via the official application.

I received my PhD from Harvard in the Harvey lab, where I developed an all-optical method (‘influence mapping’) permitting functional and structural characterization of a neural population. I completed my postdoctoral research with Dmitriy Aronov at Columbia, where I pioneered the use of black-capped chickadees as a model system for systems neuroscience.

You can find a list of my publications with selected highlights here, or view my google scholar profile