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).

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.

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.