​I am a behavioral ecologist and Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. My research investigates how different factors influence social network structure in animal groups; the relationships between network structure and the spread of information; and how individual variation scales up to shape collective dynamics. I combine behavioral experiments with computer simulations and social network techniques, allowing me to tap into a powerful set of tools for describing and analyzing the structure and functioning of social systems.

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