Summary

PhD in Biology, with experience in research, data science, consulting, fieldwork, and teaching.

Education

• Ph.D.

  2025
  University of Toronto
• Hon. B.Sc. (with high distinction)

  2019
  University of Toronto

Publications

• 6. Anthropogenically-modified soil increases the performance of non-native
  plants in a subarctic ecosystem

  2025
  NeoBiota

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• 5. Low temperatures reduce establishment of new populations of invasive plants
  in a subarctic treeline environment

  2025
  Oecologia

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• 4. Potential role of the seed bank in spreading invasive plants in a tundra-edge environment

  2023
  Botany

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• 3. Development of negative soil feedback by an invasive plant near the northern limit of its invaded range

  2023
  Plant Ecology

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• 2. Chronic Road Salt Exposure Across Life Stages and The Interactive Effects of Warming and Salinity in a Semiaquatic Insect

  2022
  Environmental Entomology

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• 1. Climate change has different predicted effects on the range shifts of two hybridizing ambush bug (Phymata, Family Reduviidae, Order Hemiptera) species

  2020
  Ecology and Evolution

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Presentations

Invited Seminars

• 2. Limits to plant invasions at the edge of the Canadian Arctic invasions.

  2025
  UTM Biology Seminar Series. University of Toronto Mississauga.
• 1. Northern invasions.

  2022
  National Invasive Species Awareness Week, Northwest Territories Council on Invasive Species, Pests, and Pathogens. Virtual.

Conference Presentations

• 8. Human‑mediated soil disturbance removes limits to plant invasions at the edge
  of the Canadian Arctic.

  2025
  Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE). Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
• 7. Limits to plant invasions at the edge of the Canadian Arctic.

  2024
  Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE). Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• 6. Limits to plant invasions at the edge of the Canadian Arctic.

  2024
  Invasive Species Centre (ISC) Annual Forum. Virtual.
• 5. Limits to plant invasions at the edge of the Arctic.

  2023
  International Conference on Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions. Pucón, Chile.

  Awarded 'Best Talk'.
• 4. Limits to plant invasions at the edge of the Arctic.

  2023
  Invasive Species Centre (ISC) Annual Forum. Virtual.
• 3. Invasive Species at the Edge of the Canadian Arctic.

  2022
  ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• 2. Soil feedbacks in northern ecosystems invaded by non‑native plants.

  2021
  Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE‑SCEE) Annual Meeting. Virtual.
• 1. Hot Models: Projecting future climate‑driven distributions of two ambush bug species, Phymata americana and Phymata pennsylvanica.

  2019
  Toronto Entomologist Association (TEA) Student Symposium.

Posters

• 2. Climate change has different predicted effects on the range shifts of two hybridising ambush bug (Phymata) species.

  2020
  International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE): North America Region Virtual Meeting.
• 1. Hot Models: Predicting the current and future distributions of two ambush bug species, Phymata americana and Phymata pennsylvanica.

  2020
  Ontario Ecology, Ethology,and Evolution Colloquium (OE3C).

Teaching

Course Instructorships

• Introduction to Biological Data (BIO259)

  2025
  Biology Department, University of Toronto Mississauga

  Undergraduate course
• Data Mining, Modeling and Biostatistics (BINF5003)

  2025
  Humber Polytechnic - International Graduate School Campus

  Graduate Certificate in Clinical Bioinformatics
• Plant Ecology (BIO330)

  2024
  Biology Department, University of Toronto Mississauga

  Undergraduate course
• Data Analytics and Storytelling (BINF5503)

  2024
  Humber Polytechnic - Virtual

  Graduate Certificate in Clinical Bioinformatics
• Data Mining, Modeling and Biostatistics (BINF5003)

  2023
  Humber Polytechnic - Virtual

  Graduate Certificate in Clinical Bioinformatics
• Quantitative Methods in R for Biology (EEB313)

  2023
  University of Toronto St. George

  Undergraduate course (co-taught)
• Quantitative Methods in R for Biology (EEB313)

  2022
  University of Toronto St. George

  Undergraduate course (co-taught)

Teaching Assistantships

• Arctic Ecology (BIO332)

  2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  University of Toronto Mississauga

  Undergraduate field course
• Plant Ecology (BIO330)

  2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
  University of Toronto Mississauga

  Undergraduate tutorials. Virtual in 2020 and 2021.
• Ecology (BIO205)

  2019, 2020
  University of Toronto Mississauga

  Undergraduate labs. Administrative TA in 2020.

Guest Lectures

• Invasive Species at the Edge of the Canadian Arctic

  2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  Arctic Ecology (BIO332). University of Toronto Mississauga.
• Range shifts, hybridisation, and climate change

  2021, 2022, 2023
  Animal Behaviour Ecology (BIO328). University of Toronto Mississauga.

  Virtual in 2021.
• Data Visualization in R

  2021
  Quantitative Methods in R for Biology (EEB313). University of Toronto St. George.
• Range Limits, Invaders and Enemies

  2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
  Plant Ecology (BIO330). University of Toronto Mississauga.

  Virtual in 2020 and 2021.