I am an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Concordia University of Edmonton, in Alberta Canada. My research is at the intersection of behavioural ecology, evolution, and animal and plant cognition. The main questions I ask revolve around why and how organisms make the decisions they do and how personality, experiences, and environment impact these decisions. This research is both multi-taxa and multi-methods, spanning empirical investigations of nest-building flexibility in zebra finches during my Undergraduate and Masters at Western University, group decision-making in zebrafish and guppies with manipulated personality compositions, and theoretical modelling of the impact of personality in fruit fly populations for my PhD at Wilfrid Laurier University. 

Most recently, I have had the opportunity to construct a theoretical framework of what studying plant information processing should look like as a postdoc at the University of Alberta, along with designing empirical experiments to test the framework.  I plan to continue this line of research here at CUE and am excited to see how the different branches of plant behaviour compare to what we know about animal behaviour. I am open to supervising student research projects on any combination of these topics and more, so please feel free to email me with your ideas. For colleagues, external and internal feel free to send me an email and we can come up with some creative projects.

If I am not at my laptop, or caring for animals and plants, I can be found climbing, cycling or running.