UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
I have had the opportunity to teach advanced workshops, as a university course instructor, give guest lectures on topics in my area of expertise, and work with students individually as an advisor, as well as in classroom settings as a teaching assistant.
Course Instructor
- 2012 Energetic Approach to Food Webs (co-taught advanced food web theory course), International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) South American Institute for Fundamental Research (SAIFR), Sao Paulo, Brazil
Guest Lecturer
- 2015 Mathematical Methods in Population Biology (graduate level), UC Davis
- 2014 Population Ecology (undergraduate level), UC Davis
- 2014 Mathematical Methods in Population Biology (graduate level), UC Davis
- 2012 Community Ecology (undergraduate leve), University of Guelph
Workshop Leader
- 2012 Scientific Modeling: graduate workshops in Mathematica (graduate & advanced undergraduate level), University of Guelph
Teaching Assistant
- 2012 Ecology, University of Guelph
- 2012 Community Ecology, University of Guelph
- 2011 Introduction to Biodiversity, University of Guelph
- 2010 Population Ecology, University of Guelph
- 2007 Wildlife Conversation and Management, University of Guelph
- 2006 Biology I, University of Guelph
- 2006 Community Ecology, University of Guelph
- 2005 Humans in the Natural World, University of Guelph
Student Advising
- 2016 Kaela Vogel, Ph.D. student, Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis (graduate advising w/ Professor Hastings). Project collaboration in development of scientific software on the role of pseudospectral methods in food web stability.
- 2015 Yuzhao Li, Ph.D. student, Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis (graduate advising w/ Professor Hastings). Informal mentorship on the use of dynamical systems for analyzing empirical data.
- 2011 Mike Yodzis, B.Sc. student, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph (undergraduate advising w/ Professor McCann). Mentored student development of lab software for analyzing large food web networks. Mike has since completed M.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics at University of Guelph.
- 2011 Lauren Jarvis, B.Sc. student, Integrative Biology, University of Guelph (undergraduate advising w/ Professor McCann). Co-advised on theoretical aspects of her undergraduate thesis and assisted with project supervision. Lauren has since completed M.Sc. in Integrative Biology, University of Guelph.
Mentor
- 2018 Google Summer of Code, Differential Equations project for the Julia Language
- 2017 Google Summer of Code, Differential Equations project for the Julia Language