Buck Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. I am investigating the trade-off between echolocation and bite force in toothed whales.
From 2016 - 2021, I was a NERC-funded Ph.D. student at University College London and the Natural History Museum with the London NERC DTP. I looked at cetacean diversity through time.
Oxford (MSc), UCL (MRes) and York (BSc First Class Hons) alumna. I have experience in animal welfare education, veterinary education, and project management with an international NGO and have also tutored and written modules for online education courses in environmental science and biology. I am passionate about supporting women in science and other STEM subjects and am a STEMettes mentor.
Experience
2022–2024
Dr, Smithsonian Institution
Education
2021
University College London, PhD Evolutionary Biology
2015
University College London, MRes Energy Demand
2011
University of Oxford , MSc Biology (integrative biosciences)
2010
University of York , BSc Environmental Science (Hons)
Publications
2022
Current Biology, The tempo of cetacean cranial evolution
2020
BMC Biology , Wonky whales: the evolution of cranial asymmetry in cetaceans
2019
Marine Mammal Science, What can cetacean stranding records tell us? A study of UK and Irish cetacean diversity over the past 100 years
2019
PeerJ, Supernumerary teeth observed in a live True’s beaked whale in the Bay of Biscay
2019
PeerJ, Combining simulation modeling and stable isotope analyses to reconstruct the last known movements of one of Nature’s giants