Biography

I’m a PhD student at Flinders University in South Australia, where I’m researching the vulnerability of inshore dolphin populations to infectious disease outbreaks. My work focuses on three Australian species, Australian snubfin, Australian humpback, and Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, and uses social network analysis and disease modelling to explore how diseases may spread through wild populations. I’m excited to be working on a collaborative project between Flinders University, Oregon State University, and Georgetown University, combining perspectives from marine mammal ecology and infectious disease modelling to better understand these complex systems.