San Diego, California, United States
Neuroscientist working in animal bioacoustics with environmental and technological applications. I conduct basic and applied, behavioral and biological, laboratory and field research with a strong track record of scientific publications and environmental and technical scientific writing. I specialize in application of psychoacoustic datasets to environmental regulations.
I taught PSYC 138: Sound and Music Perception to 50 students in the Spring 2018 and 70 students in the Winter 2019 quarters at UCSD.
I conducted my doctoral work with James A Simmons studying the behavior and neuroscience of bat echolocation.
As a teaching assistant for this new, three-week long Summer@Brown course for advanced high school students, I was responsible for grading homework assignments, quizzes, and exams. I assisted the instructor during all class sessions, and helped to maintain the online interface.
I designed and taught a two-week course for advanced high school students. The main objective of this course was to explore what sound is and how the brain interprets it with a special focus on the perception of music. We related the physical properties of sound to acoustic perception, and investigated the neurobiological foundation for emotional responses to music.