Lecturer I, Anthropology
About
I am a biological anthropologist who studies the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of health and behavior. My field and laboratory research focuses on a wild population of critically endangered chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Senegal. My primary academic and professional work integrates One-Health approaches with ecological, behavioral, physiological, life history, and statistical data to broadly understand the evolution of the primate-hominin lineage, and more specifically, understand how people and nonhuman primates cope with extreme heat and sharing space in savanna landscapes of the Anthropocene.
Research Interests
- Primate behavioral ecology
- Wildlife conservation
- Microbiome
- Heat stress
- Savanna landscapes
- Nutritional ecology
