I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia, where I work on the phylogenomics of Populus and think about ways to improve software for scientists. I have also worked on the genetics of Aquilegia at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
I finished my PhD at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in 2010. My dissertation was on speciation processes in perennial Lupinus in California.
In a previous life, I was a software engineer at Apple Computer, working on the IOKit in OS X. Before that, I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's in Computer Science and one in Plant Genetics.
Between all of those things, I have been sporadically employed with an educational nonprofit (California Institute for Biodiversity), writing, programming, and designing interactive stories about California's unique flora, biodiversity, and ecology.