I am fascinated by the intricacy of plant-pollinator mutualisms. My research asks how introduced species, land-use change, and other global change drivers influence these interactions and their functional outcomes for plants, insects, and people. I work in both natural and agricultural ecosystems, addressing fundamental questions that also inform biodiversity conservation and sustainable food production. To answer these questions, my work combines manipulative field and greenhouse experiments with fine-scale lab work and quantitative approaches, linking the foraging behavior and reproduction of individual organisms to population and community dynamics.

I completed my Ph.D. in Entomology at the University of California, Davis, where I studied how honey bee competition impacts plant-pollinator interaction patterns, native plant pollination, and the nutritional content of native bee diets. As a USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University, I examined the effects of honey bee competition on bumble bee fitness and explored factors influencing pathogen transmission in plant-pollinator interaction networks. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Freiburg, working on crop pollination research as part of the VALOR EU-Horizon Project: https://valor-project.eu/.

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