Teaching

My goal as a teacher is to impart a sense of wonder and curiosity about the natural world in students while teaching them to think critically in a safe and inclusive space. I believe critical thinking is essential for students to evaluate information in other domains, consequently developing them into engaged citizens.

In my teaching, I am particularly passionate about engaging with empirical ecologists on two fronts: ecological theory and experimental design. I enjoy working with empirical ecologists to explore the role that theory can play in their own research and helping them resource-efficient, informative experiments to test the theory.

Workshops

Ecological theory for everyone: A practical introduction to engaging with theory in your own research, for those with little or no theoretical experience
ESA Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City · 2026

Role: Co-instructor
Instructors: Caroline Farrior, Ravi Ranjan, Robin Decker, Sun Yi Soh

How to design better experiments?
GLEON Limnoseries · September 2025

Role: Instructor
Presented with Mridul Thomas

Michigan State University

Teaching Fellow in the Enhancing Linkages Between Mathematics and Ecology (ELME) program.

Theoretical Population and Community Ecology
ELME · Summer 2019

Role: Teaching Fellow
Instructor: Thomas Koffel

Introduction to Meta-Analysis in Ecology
ELME · Summer 2019

Role: Teaching Fellow
Instructor: Craig Osenberg

Introduction to Theoretical Ecology: Populations and Species Interactions
ELME · Summer 2018

Role: Teaching Fellow
Instructor: Chad Brassil

Bayesian Models in Ecology
ELME · Summer 2018

Role: Teaching Fellow
Instructor: Inés Ibáñez

Structured Demographic Models for Population, Community, and Evolutionary Ecology
ELME · Summer 2018

Role: Teaching Fellow
Instructor: Tom E. X. Miller

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

EC 201: Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology
An introductory course on theory in ecology for undergraduate and graduate students

Role: Teaching Assistant
Instructor: Vishwesha Guttal