My research is at the interface of mathematics and biology. Broadly speaking my biological interests encompass several
"big" questions: How do environmental, behavioral, evolutionary, physiological, and cultural factors affect dynamics of
populations over time and space? How do these factors differ across related but distinct populations? How do biological
scales interact, and how can insights from one scale deepen our understanding of another? To study these questions I both
develop and analyze statistical and mathematical models using dynamical systems theory and confront them with data. Concretely
these biological interests span disease and ecological modeling and their intersection as well as evolutionary models.
Mathematically I approach these subjects from the perspective of one of several problem dependent frameworks: multi-scale and
multi-physics models, stochastic models, ODE, PDE, and DDE models, and combinations thereof. When confronting my models with data
I make use of techniques from optimization theory, uncertainty quantification, machine learning, numerical linear algebra, and
applied statistics. I especially enjoy direct collaboration with empirical scientists.
Outside of work I love to travel, and to get outside, and get moving.
"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly
changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Alexander 'Supertramp' Mccandless