About

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Anthropology Department at UC Davis.
My work explores how people and groups adopt new habits and beliefs, how these spread through social networks, and how individual-level changes can scale into large cultural shifts.

To study these dynamics, I combine longitudinal data, social network analysis, agent-based simulations, and formal modeling. I am especially passionate about Bayesian statistics and applying computational tools to understand complex systems.

Outside of research, I enjoy music, football (soccer), and playing around with generative models like Conway’s Game of Life – where small changes aggregate to large-scale patterns:

You just got a random development of the Game of Life. Did you get anything interesting?