I have more than ten years of experience in academic research, publishing, and data science. I use computational methods (R programming, statistics, machine learning, GIS, comparative methods) and large data sets to address questions about regional to global scale biological patterns and processes. I specialize in infectious disease (e.g., disease spillover and zoonotic outbreaks) and global biodiversity (especially of terrestrial vertebrates). I have published over 40 peer reviewed publications to date, and my work is well cited (H-index 27 in early 2022). I have also successfully obtained substantial external funding for my work (>$3,000,000) from both NSF and NIH. I led the Macroecology of Infectious Disease Research Coordination Network (51 participants from five countries, 38 peer reviewed publications, two databases and numerous educational products). My current work is focused building statistical models of spillover and outbreak risk for Ebola and other filoviruses in Africa.