Teaching and mentoring
Teaching
- 2018–2020, 2023
- Guest lecturer, University of St Andrews, UK
Designed and gave a lecture on brain evolution: comparative neuroanatomy and controversies (third-year Evolution, 2023). Gave three lectures on social evolution: the Price equation, kin selection, and group selection (third-year Evolution, 2019). Set essay topics, advised on essay writing, and graded essays in Evolutionary Biology (second year) and Evolution (third year). - 2013–2016
- Teaching assistant, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Contributed a project to the Experimental Design course, graded MSc projects, and taught population genetics exercise sections. - 2010
- Instructor of record, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Mathematics for Life Sciences, a semester-long course. Designed the syllabus, lectures, homework, and exams, and graded all work. - 2007–2009
- Graduate teaching assistant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Laboratory sections of introductory Biology and Genetics, and exercise sections of Mathematics for Life Sciences. Completed a graduate seminar on teaching college mathematics (2009).
Mentoring
- 2018–2020
- Informal mentoring of PhD students and a postdoc in the School of Biology, University of St Andrews, on LaTeX, Mathematica, and mathematical modelling techniques.
- 2015–2016
- Informal mentoring of a postdoc at the University of Lausanne on optimal control theory and the GPOPS software, with feedback on her manuscript.
Training events
- 2020
- Co-organised, with Reyes Sanles-Falagan, a fellowship-writing workshop for early-career researchers in the School of Biology, University of St Andrews, with ten speakers and 26 participants.