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I am a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, working with Corina Tarnita. I am a biologist working at the interface of evolution and development, mainly using theoretical models.
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Ecological principles for the evolution of communication in collective systems
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, in press (2024)
We derive ecological conditions for the evolution of communication in a collective context and show how diverse communication strategies used by social insects (e.g., honeybee waggle dance, trail pheromones, antennal contacts) can be explained theoretically as adaptations to different ecological pressures.
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Development shapes the evolutionary diversification of rodent stripe patterns
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 120 (45), e2312077120 (2023)
In this work, we investigate the diversity of rodent stripe patterns from an evolutionary and developmental perspective.
Using a mathematical model for pattern development inspired by recent molecular data, we show that development may have both facilitated and constrained pattern evolution.
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When being flexible matters: ecological underpinnings for the evolution of collective flexibility and task allocation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 119 (18), e2116066119 (2022)
In this paper, we develop a general theoretical framework
for the evolution of task allocation in variable environments, applicable to multicellular organisms and social insect colonies.
We derive simple and general conditions for the evolution of collective flexibility, and propose potential theoretical explanations for some puzzling empirical observations.
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| 2023 | PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA
Advised by Corina Tarnita.
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| 2018 | MSc in Cancer, Stem Cells & Developmental Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| 2018 | MSc in Mathematical Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| 2014 | BSc in Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| 2014 | BSc in Mathematics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |