I am a lead data scientist and Director of the Data Science Services team at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. I received my Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Biological Anthropology from New York University and my M.Sc. in Biological Anthropology and B.A. in Anthropology and Archaeology from the University of Durham (UK). I am currently completing a masters degree in Data Science at Harvard Extension School.

RESEARCH

I conduct research on a variety of topics in evolutionary biology, but I am primarily interested in evolutionary medicine and the phylogenetic history of fossil apes and humans. For this research, I have received funding from the National Science Foundation, The Leakey Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Linnean Society of London.

CONSULTING

During 12 years at Harvard I have consulted on over 2500 different research projects, mentoring in excess of 1500 individual researchers, across  50+ different Harvard and MIT departments and schools.

TEACHING

I have developed and taught several courses in evolutionary biology at New York University and the University of Durham (UK). These courses encompassed Human Evolutionary Biology, Primate Functional Anatomy and Locomotion, and Phylogenetic Methods. At Harvard, I have developed and taught statistical software workshops in R, Python, Stata, and SAS.