Human well-being relies on ecosystems and biodiversity, and we know both are declining worldwide.

But mitigating this decline is difficult without tools to forecast biodiversity change.

Therefore, I aim to provide next-generation tools that rely on biodiversity information from genes to entire ecosystems to predict change across space and time.

I study how organisms interact with the environment (ecology) and how their DNA changes over space and time (evolution). Ecology and evolution are often studied separately.

But a deep understanding of how they work together is key to effectively conserving and forecasting biodiversity.

My work bridges the gap between ecology and evolution by integrating spatial ecology and genomics. I genotype thousands of individuals across all kinds of species to learn how ecology determines evolution and how their interaction should inform conservation.