Biography

I studied Physics in college, since I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and, well, that's what you studied in college. After a couple of years of college, however, I discovered that there were also other fields, some of which were quite interesting.

After college, I returned to Los Alamos, where I worked in a biochemistry lab for a few years. I then started graduate school in Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin. After a couple of years of that, I discovered that there were EVEN MORE fields. In particular, there was evolutionary biology, which is just about the most interesting thing ever. I moved to Harvard in the Biophysics program, and worked with two people in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department: John Wakeley and David Haig.

For the next three years, I was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and then joined the faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, where I have been since 2005. Since coming to SFI, I have been overwhelmed by the sheer number of interesting fields there are out there. Fortunately, evolution provides a great way to think about many of them.