My work focuses specifically on birds and speciation. As a Postdoctoral Fellow, I am currently working on how species diversify and adapt to their environment using genomic structural variants, such as chromosomal inversions or transposable elements. During my PhD, I worked on speciation phylogenomics in Yellow-breasted Chats (Icteria virens). I've also studied speciation and diversification in Sturnella Meadowlarks, leading to the new species Chihuahuan Meadowlark (Sturnella lilianae).My interests in science are diverse: bio and phylogeography, bioacoustics, phylogenomics, and systematics and taxonomy.
