Profile
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I'm a PhD student in philosophy of science at Medical Museion and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen. My project is about the epistemology of single-cell and spatial genomics. My advisors are Karin Tybjerg and Sara Green.
Biography
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I was born and raised in San Diego County, California. I went to college at the University of California, San Diego, where I double majored in chemistry and philosophy and minored in political science. During my last year, I worked as an assistant in an aerosol research group at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
After graduating in 2012, I worked as a research technician at the University of Texas, El Paso, studying the neuroscience of drug addiction in rats. There I developed an interest in molecular biology and went off to graduate school at Duke University, where I joined Stefano Di Talia's lab in the Department of Cell Biology. My dissertation focused on the timing of cell divisions in the fly embryo.
My wife and I moved to Copenhagen in 2020. After finishing my PhD in 2022, I took a postdoctoral position at the National Research Center for the Working Environment studying workplace exposures to airborne particles (including plastics). In March of 2024, I started my second PhD and formally made the transition to research in philosophy of science.