I am a computational archaeologist studying human responses to climate change over the last 15,000 years. I earned my Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2024. I am also an alumnus of the U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program (2021-2022). My dissertation research was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and examined animal husbandry strategies used by the earliest farming societies to settle in the Eastern Adriatic 8,000-6,000 years ago. That work involved stable isotope analysis of zooarchaeological bone and teeth, radiocarbon dating, and population modeling. I also have a background in ecological modeling and geospatial analysis.
I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences (IAW) at the University of Bern, and a member of the Past To Future Project. My role in this collaborative project is to research how different human societies coped with risk, developed resilience strategies, and reconciled with their own vulnerabilities amidst rapid and gradual climate change events through space and time. To this end, my work involves developing a conceptual framework that integrates the concepts of risk, resilience, and vulnerability, and testing formal models for human behavior using quantitative and qualitative archaeological data.
