Member, Quantitative Disease Ecology & Conservation Lab (QDEC Lab)
State of Origin: Illinois
Degree Program: PhD
Entered Program: Fall 2017
Expected Graduation: Spring 2021
Dissertation Topic: Spatial Variation in Mosquito Populations that Mediate Vector-Borne Disease Risk
Areas of interest: Medical geography, vector-borne disease, disease ecology, GIS and remote sensing, arthropod-borne viruses
Research Statement: My research interests are in the application of GIS to understand vector-borne transmission. My past work has focused on range expansions of Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus, two mosquito vectors of dengue, chikungunya, and Zika virus. Moving forward, I plan to study spatial factors affecting vector distributions, insecticide resistance, and virus transmission in order to build spatial models of current and future arthropod-borne disease transmission.
Adviser: Dr. Sadie Ryan
Educational Background
- Master of Applied Geography, New Mexico State University
- M.S. in Biology, New Mexico State University
- B.A. in Geography and Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign