Previously

• 2019–2023

  Life Sciences Fellow, University of Michigan — program.

• 2013–2019

  PhD, Cornell University — Cornell’s Laboratory of Ornithology.
  As a graduate student, Jake investigated several dimensions of biodiversity, applying Systematic Biology, Population Genomics, and Paleontology.

  Key Paper 1 Publisher’s Award Key Paper 2 2019 Defense Seminar

• 2010–2013

  Researcher, Prum Lab (Yale) — focused on evolutionary relationships within and among bird species.

• 2006–2010

  B.S., Yale University — senior thesis investigated patterns of phylogeographic congruence among co-distributed open-habitat specialists across the Amazon basin.

Affiliations

• Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Museum of Zoology
• Institute for Data Science
• School for Environment and Sustainability