I have been a lover of all things bug for as long as I can remember. Like many kids, I enjoyed playing outside and turning over rocks, marveling at the world in miniature underneath. But I never outgrew this fascination, and now that I'm an adult, I very professionally call it "studying invertebrate ecology and evolution".
I completed my undergraduate degree in Ecology and Evolution at Princeton University and studied ant-plant mutualisms in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. I am now a PhD student at Harvard University studying termites at Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Republic of the Congo. You can find my complete CV here.