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I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, working with Corina Tarnita. My research focuses on the evolution and development of collective biological systems, such as multicellular organisms and social insect colonies.
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Development shapes the evolutionary diversification of rodent stripe patterns
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 120 (45), e2312077120 (2023)
In this work, we investigate the diversity of rodent stripe patterns from an evolutionary and developmental perspective.
Using a mathematical model for pattern development inspired by recent molecular data, we show that development may have both facilitated and constrained pattern evolution.
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When being flexible matters: ecological underpinnings for the evolution of collective flexibility and task allocation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 119 (18), e2116066119 (2022)
In this paper, we develop a general theoretical framework
for the evolution of task allocation in variable environments, applicable to multicellular organisms and social insect colonies.
We derive simple and general conditions for the evolution of collective flexibility, and propose potential theoretical explanations for some puzzling empirical observations.
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Emergence of diverse life cycles and life histories at the origin of multicellularity
Nature Ecology & Evolution 3, 1197-1205 (2019)
In this paper, we build a theoretical model for the first emergence of multicellular life cycles, starting from a unicellular ancestor.
We find that diverse types of multicellular life cycles could have easily emerged early on, shaped by ancestral constraints and ecological conditions.
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| 2023 | PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA
Advised by Corina Tarnita.
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| 2018 | MSc in Cancer, Stem Cells & Developmental Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| 2018 | MSc in Mathematical Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| 2014 | BSc in Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| 2014 | BSc in Mathematics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands |