My research focuses on how complex interaction networks and multiscale feedback lead to emergent behaviors in biological systems.

I study how viral diversity and evolutionary dynamics emerge from eco-evolutionary feedback loops and complex virus-host interaction networks. I build theoretical and computational models that bridge across timescales (virus-host encounter rates to ecological to evolutionary scales) and scales of biological organization (individuals to populations to communities) to address these ecological and evolutionary questions. You can read more about my projects in this area here.

During my PhD, I studied how mechano-chemical feedback, morpho-mechanical coupling and cell-cell interactions lead to emergent patterns and behaviors at the population, organismal and tissue levels. With Hydra and flatworms as my model systems, I used a combination of wet-lab experiments and mathematical models to study these emergent phenomena in the context of body-axis formation, feeding behaviors and asexual reproduction. You can read more about my PhD projects here and here.