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I am a molecular paleoecologist, who uses organic geochemical and stable isotopic tools to study how disturbance processes, such as wildfire and herbivory, interacted with carbon cycling and climate change in ancient terrestrial ecosystems. My work mainly focuses on fires in savannas and grasslands, which today account for ~80% of global annual burned area. Before starting at the University of Chicago, I was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow with a joint appointment at Yale University and Brown University. I received a bachelor’s in Biology and Environmental Earth Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015 and a PhD in Geosciences from Pennsylvania State University in 2020.