B.S., M.S. – Physics, University of Delaware
Ph.D. – University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
With streamlined laboratory models, stringent controls over all environmental conditions have allowed scientists to examine and learn much about the world around us, but the natural world is typically far more complex than environments examined experimentally in the lab. I’m broadly interested in loosening the constraints on model systems. Currently, I use realistic spatial conditions to study interactions between bacteriophages and bacterial biofilm structure and community dynamics. My future interests include examining systems with higher numbers of species with methods analogous to statistical mechanics in physics.