Experience

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

• Germany
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Scientist

  • Aug 2020 - Present



RAND Europe

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Analyst

  • Sep 2019 - Apr 2020

  I worked in the Home Affairs & Social Policy team, contributing to projects related to family and children policy and education interventions. 1) For the European Platform for Investing in Children (EPIC) project, I authored: a policy memo on inclusive early childhood education and care (published), and another forthcoming policy memo on sexuality education across EU countries (in progress). 2) I contributed to the research on environmental crime in the EU, focusing on illegal wildlife and waste markets, as part of the project on illicit markets in the EU. 3) I contributed to the project on the evaluation of the EU Strategy on Animal Welfare. Show less



New York University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ph.D. Candidate in Biological Anthropology

  • Sep 2013 - Aug 2019

  -Advisor: James P. Higham-For my doctoral dissertation, I studied non-human primates to describe population, behavioral, and physiological processes that underlie variation in maternal care.-I conducted fieldwork on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico, to collect behavioral and physiological data from reproductive female monkeys and their infants.-I took courses on evolutionary primatology, behavioral endocrinology, social neuroscience, human genomics, and statistics & data analysis. -I learned lab skills for hormone analysis and DNA sequencing (PCR).-Successful grants: National Science Foundation, Leakey Foundation, American Society of Primatologists, International Primatological Society. Show less

• Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2017 - May 2017

  -I designed and led two lab sections each with ~20 undergraduate students every week during the course.



Tokai Baboon Project

• Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2012 - Jun 2012

  -I undertook fieldwork on 2 troops of chacma baboons living in the Tokai forest in Cape Town. -I collected behavioral data and helped setting up field settings for collecting non-invasive physiological data. -The project was supervised by Drs. Larissa Swedell and Steffen Foerster. -I undertook fieldwork on 2 troops of chacma baboons living in the Tokai forest in Cape Town. -I collected behavioral data and helped setting up field settings for collecting non-invasive physiological data. -The project was supervised by Drs. Larissa Swedell and Steffen Foerster.