Graduate Student Details

I am an orangutan researcher and conservationist, broadly interested in the intersection of primate nutrition, energetics and reproduction. I received my BA in Anthropology from Boston University in 2018, and have been involved with orangutan research since 2016. During my undergraduate years I conducted research on orangutan nutrition, before spending a year in Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesia as a research assistant, studying orangutan parasitology and supporting the long-term research program. From 2019 to 2023 I worked as the Program and Development Coordinator for the Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program, which has deepened my passion for community-led, landscape-level conservation and fieldwork in Indonesian Borneo! Now, at Rutgers, I plan to continue my research at both Gunung Palung and the Tuanan Orangutan Research Station, co-directed by my advisor, Dr. Erin Vogel. I aim to study the ways in which orangutan physiology varies across ecological conditions, and how this may impact reproductive ecology, and ultimately, the conservation of this critically endangered species.