Education

• University of Colorado Boulder, PhD
• University of Colorado Boulder, MA
• Washington University in St. Louis, BA

Research Interests

• Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology
• Statistical Genetics
• Gene-Environment Interplay
• Substance Use Disorders
• Methods Development

Research Description

My research uses genome-wide data to better understand how genetic and environmental experiences jointly shape human health and behavior, with a particular focus on substance use disorders. Across these projects, a central goal is to understand heterogeneity within diagnoses, including why individuals with the same condition may show very different patterns of risk and resilience. Additionally, I am interested in integrating traditional family-based statistical approaches with modern genomic techniques in order to study how certain traits cluster within families across generations. Collectively, this work aims to capture the complexity of disease processes in ways that are both biologically grounded and clinically meaningful.

Awards

• Early Career Investigator Award, International Society of Psychiatric Genetics (2025)
• NIDA T32 post-doctoral training fellowship (2024 – 2025)
• Fulker Award, Behavioral Genetics Association (2022)
• Carol Lynch Award, Institute for Behavioral Genetics (2022)
• NIMH T32 pre-doctoral training fellowship (2019 – 2022)
• Thompson Award, Behavioral Genetics Association (2020)
• Chapter President, Psi Chi National Honors Society (2017)

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3BynvVwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao