About Me
Straddling the Eocene–Oligocene boundary in Xinjiang, China
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I am a vertebrate paleontologist and Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. I received a master of science degree from the Department of Geology at the University of Kansas in 2016, and Ph.D. from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas in 2022.
My research interests include the origin and evolution of bats, stem bat diversity and paleobiogeography, Paleocene mammal evolution, and the origin and evolution of terrestrial behaviors in bats. I have conducted research in several countries on topics including mammalian paleontology, bat ecology, dinosaur biology, and reptile and amphibian diversity. I have taught courses on paleobiology, cellular biology, organismal biology, herpetology, human anatomy, and primate evolution. |
News
26 April 2023: Happy to announce that a collaboration with one of my oldest friends is finally published. We evaluated changes in dispersal ability in fragmented populations (e.g., islands and "patchy" habitats) using a new model. Check out our open access paper here!
13 April 2023: Colleagues and I just published the earliest bats known from complete skeletons, which have implications for understanding the diversity and morphology of early bats. Check the open access paper out here!
07 January 2023: We have just published a new paper stemming from research during my master's degree about the terrestrial locomotor behaviors of the big brown bat. Access the full paper here!
01 April 2022: Current undergraduate Matthew Stout will present his research on a unique pathological mammoth tooth and I will present our research on the nyctithere fauna of Big Multi Quarry at the Kansas Academy of Science meeting tomorrow in Sterling, Kansas.
30 June 2021: Excited to announce the earliest bat fossils known from Asia! Check out our paper out today in Biology Letters for more info.
13 April 2023: Colleagues and I just published the earliest bats known from complete skeletons, which have implications for understanding the diversity and morphology of early bats. Check the open access paper out here!
07 January 2023: We have just published a new paper stemming from research during my master's degree about the terrestrial locomotor behaviors of the big brown bat. Access the full paper here!
01 April 2022: Current undergraduate Matthew Stout will present his research on a unique pathological mammoth tooth and I will present our research on the nyctithere fauna of Big Multi Quarry at the Kansas Academy of Science meeting tomorrow in Sterling, Kansas.
30 June 2021: Excited to announce the earliest bat fossils known from Asia! Check out our paper out today in Biology Letters for more info.
