I am a Postdoctoral Fellow working in the Petrov Lab in the Department of Biology at Stanford
I am broadly interested in how simple quantitative rules of change emerge in complex system with many components, with a focus on evolutionary changes in complex microbial ecosystems . I did my Bachelors in Biological Sciences at Oxford University and my Masters in Computational Methods in Ecology and Evolution at Imperial College London (link to paper with James Rosindell). In 2016 i moved to the US to start my PhD at Yale University with Alvaro Sanchez. During my PhD I began numerous projects at the intersection of microbial population biology, evolutionary ecology and metabolism (see Research for a brief overview). In August 2022 i started a Post-doc with Dmitri Petrov at Stanford and using wine fermentation as a model system to study the predictability of evolution
I am a multi-national European and consider the Pyrénées-Orientales region in France to be my second home. From my French-Catalan family I get a love of cooking, mushroom foraging and sweet wines. From my Belgian family I get an obsession with bread, a penchant for koffiekoeken and an avid hatred of Rubens. From my family in London i get a passion for comedy, a love of theater and a grudging appreciation for brutalist architecture. My hobbies include cooking, bread-making, wine-tasting and hiking.