2025-present
Visiting Researcher
- Project: Can modelling the content of laws aid in their explanatory use?
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom
2018-2025
Ph.D., Philosophy
Thesis Advisors: Phyllis Illari & Luke Fenton-Glynn
- Thesis: Toward a Philosophical Biology: Principles and Parameters for Mechanistic Explanations in Cell Biology
University College London, London, United Kingdom
2017-2018
M.A., Philosophy
Thesis Advisor: Luke Fenton-Glynn
- Thesis: The Challenges of Purely Mechanistic Models in Biology and the Minimum Need for a 'Mechanism-plus-X' Framework (Link)
University College London, London, United Kingdom
2013-2016
CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Groups: Susan Lindquist & Bonnie Berger
- Project 1: Identification of the Zeo1 Protein as a Candidate Structural Homolog of α-Synuclein in Budding Yeast (Link) (Review Article)
- Project 2: Beyond Order in Protein Structure: Disordered Domains as Generative Domains (Abstract)
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, &
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
2008-2012
Ph.D., Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, & Collaborative Program in Neuroscience
Research Group: Gerold Schmitt-Ulms
- Thesis: The Significance of the Evolutionary Relationship of Prion Proteins and ZIP Transporters in Health and Disease (Link)
Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2004-2008
H.B.Sc., Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Research Groups: Sidney E. Croul & Tim-Rasmus Kiehl (Neuropathology Department, University Health Network)
- Project 1: Creation of a retrospective searchable neuropathologic database from print archives at Toronto's UHN (Link)
- Project 2: Anaplastic glioma after high-dose proton-photon radiation treatment for low-grade skull base chondrosarcoma (Link)
- Project 3: Seasonal patterns of presentation in primary malignant brain tumors and metastases (Link)
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2001-2004
Richmond Hill High School, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada; Governor General's Academic Medal (Link)