About me

I’m currently a DECRA Fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, where I’m living with my wife and son. Prior to this I have also completed postdocs at the Natural History Museum in London (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, Leverhulme Research Project Grant), as well as the University of Oxford.

I am a palaeobiologist fascinated by phenotypic evolution, phylogeny, Earth’s physical history and how it has all interacted to produce the diversity of life that we see around us. I have conducted morphological, phylogenetic and macroevolutionary studies on multiple mammal and bird groups, utilising a variety of analytical approaches.

My research can be divided into two main topics: 1) sensory biology; and 2) macroevolutionary patterns. I primarily use marine mammals (e.g. whales, seals, sirenians) as my model organisms, due the wide range of ecological and morphological variation present in living species in combination with their rich fossil record.