Profile
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I'm a PhD student at Medical Museion (a medical history museum) and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen. My research focuses on the history and philosophy of the biomedical sciences. I'm advised by 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). I was always interested in pursuing a career in history and philosophy of science. In March of 2024, I finally got the chance.