I am an applied mathematician and a theoretical biologist at the University of Michigan, where I am an LSA Collegiate Fellow (2026–) and an incoming Assistant Professor (2027–) in the Department of Mathematics and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems.

I use mathematics and computation to study social processes, in both biological collectives and human societies. My work brings together methods from applied mathematics — including game theory, dynamical systems, and stochastic processes — with theory and concepts from evolutionary biology and social science. Recent research interests include:

1. reciprocity mediated by reputation, communication, and social norms;
2. prosocial decision making in dynamic environments; and
3. the emergence of social structures and their effects on collective behavior.

My group will be recruiting motivated students and postdocs interested in mathematical modeling of social dynamics. Prospective applicants with backgrounds in mathematics, physics, biology, computer science, quantitative social science, or related fields are encouraged to reach out. Please email me your CV and a brief statement of your research interests.

Recent & Upcoming Events

January 2027: I will attend the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM 2027) in Chicago, IL.

November 2026: I will give a Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar.

October 2026: I will attend the Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2026) in Binghamton, NY, where I will give a contributed talk on our recent preprint.

August 2026: I have moved to the University of Michigan!

June 2026: New preprint! “A model of local and global reciprocity” (with Yohsuke Murase, Taylor Kessinger, and Joshua Plotkin) is out on arXiv.

May 2026: I attended the third Beijer Young Scholars workshop in Stockholm.

May 2026: New preprint! “Bridging social–ecological systems and ecological economics to navigate polycrisis” led by Louis Delannoy is out on EarthArXiv.

January 2026: I attended ICMMA 2025 Cooperative Strategies and Dynamics in Social Systems: from Human to Insect Societies at Meiji University in Tokyo.