Biography
Education
- PhD Biological & Environmental Engineering at Cornell University, 2011
- MSc Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University, 2007
- BSc Environmental Science at University of California at Santa Barbara, 2004
- BA Spanish Literature at University of California at Santa Barbara, 2004
- Study Abroad at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2003
Research and Teaching Experience
- Assistant Professor, University of California at Davis, 2017 – present
- AXA Research Fund Post-doc Fellow at IfU – Environmental Fluid Mechanics, ETH Zürich 2014 – 2016
- Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow at SIMBIOS Centre and ETH Zürich, 2011 – 2014
- Visiting Lecturer at Dept. Plant Biology and Soil Science, University of Vigo, 2012
- Course Instructor at Cornell Prison Education Program, Auburn Correctional Facility, 2010
- Research Assistant at Dept. Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California at Davis, 2005
- Undergraduate Research Assistant at Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research, 2003 – 2004
Awards
- NSF-CAREER
- UC Davis Hellman Fellow
- Communicate Your Science Video Competition Finalist at EGU
- AXA Research Fund Postdoc Fellowship
- Graduate Women in Science Fellowship
- Marie Curie-International Incoming Fellowship
- United Kingdom Research Excellence Framework Participant
- Royal Society of Edinburgh International Exchange Program
- Teresa Heinz Foundation for Environmental Research Dissertation Award
- NG Kaul Memorial Scholarship
- Cornell-Sloan Graduate Fellowship