About me and my research

I am a quantitative microbial life scientist that researches ecology, evolution, and, increasingly, physiology. My PhD training is in biology with a wet lab focus and my postdoctoral training was primarily in biological physics. My work attempts to incorporate the statistical physical perspective on microbial living systems through data-driven modeling coupled with precision experiments.

I am now a CNRS Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) in the UMR 8030 “Metabolic Genomics” at Genoscope in Évry, France.Here you can read about my new group, Scales of Microbial Architectonics (SoMA) laboratory. This website will remain up for posterity, with occasional blogposts added.

In my free time I enjoy making gnocchi, powerlifting, swimming, reading Italo Calvino, Mathias Énard, and Emil Cioran, world-systems theory, and car repair.