I am really interested in evolutionary ecology, and the application of evolutionary principles to biomedical questions.

Personally, I am currently working within the field of nutritional ecology. Nutritional ecology is a branch of evolutionary ecology that is focussed on understanding the interactions between the food environment, an organism’s behavioural / appetitive traits and its nutritional physiology.

How do these components interact to give rise to a state of health, life-history functioning and ultimately evolutionary fitness? 

These are the questions nutritional ecologists try to answer.

Given the rise in non-communicable diseases and the role of our food environment in determining these, nutritional ecology is more relevant to human health than ever before.

My skill set is really geared toward to application of statistical and computational techniques. Thus, I try to answer nutritional ecology questions using data gathered from across the hierarchy of biology; from genes in model organisms to human populations.