I am an evolutionary functional morphologist interested in the physical and functional ways mammals adapt to extreme ecologies and environments. I study relationships among form, function, and the environment across mammalian evolutionary history, with a particular focus on transitions to the aquatic habitat.

My work spans multiple levels of morphological and structural hierarchies, with an aim to understand how variation in a structure’s shape and properties scales up to influence whole-organism biomechanics, especially in the context of ecologically relevant movements and activities.