Jul 7, 2025
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About me
I am a Postdoctoral Research Scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) at the National Wildlife Research Centre in Ottawa, ON1 .
Research Interests
With the ever increasing complexity of chemical mixtures that humans and wildlife are exposed, modernized and higher throughput methods are necessary to both detect and quantify contaminants in the environment, and to evaluate how these chemicals interact with the body. Environmental monitoring programs are typically limited to known contaminants, but advances in non-targeted analysis (NTA) methods provide the means for more complete measurements of the chemical 'exposome'. However, exposure alone provides an incomplete picture into the fate of these chemicals, as their behaviour in the body may result in the accumulation, detoxification, removal, or even transformation into more toxic forms. My research sits at the interface of analytical chemistry and molecular biology - characterizing chemical mixtures in complex environmental matrices (e.g., bird eggs), and using analytical, biochemical, and computational techniques to probe their interactions with key targets in the body (e.g., proteins).
The National Wildlife Research Centre is located on the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. These lands, including the water and wildlife within them were cared for and stewarded by the Omàmìwininìwag since time immemorial. I acknowledge that the settler relationships to both the land and the peoples of this land were and are continually broken and misused. At the time of writing, I take this moment to reflect on the privledges I have had here and elsewhere in Canada, to appreciate the natural beauty of this land, as well as acknowledge the harms that I have caused both implicitly by my silence and explicitly with my own thoughts, words, and actions. I commit myself to a continual unlearning of my internal biases and to antiracism in my work as a scientist.