I hold a PhD from Carleton University. My dissertation won the school’s Senate Medal for Academic Achievement at the Doctoral Level. It’s a real medal that came in a box with a red crushed velvet lining. Marc Garneau handed it to me at my graduation ceremony. After grad school, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, still a professional highlight. While in Berlin, I held a concurrent postdoc from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. My academic work appeared in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (which, trust me), Journal of Historical Sociology (again, IYKYK), Journal of the History of Biology, and Food, Culture and Society.

My science writing has appeared in Scientific American, New Scientist and Discover magazine. Previous science communication clients include National Geographic Channel, the Alberta Medical Association and the Canadian Beekeepers Federation.

In 2022, I earned an MFA in Creative Writing through UBC’s School of Creative Writing. My essay, “The Stutter of Emmett’s Stutter” won subTerrain’s 2021 Lush Triumphant Prize for CNF. For the Canadian Literati in the crowd, my creative writing has appeared in Blood and Bourbon, Funicular, and TNQ. In spring 2024, Great Plains Press published my novella, The Head, about a math professor who discovers a living, but disembodied, infant head. My second book, The As Yet Unkown is under submission with Great Plains and I’ve begun work on my third book, a novel that will require research into elephant sedatives—working title, Eat the Brightness.

I have taught in various capacities at the University of Alberta since 2009. I currently teach writing and communications at the graduate level in the Faculty of Engineering.

Of course, the greatest thing I’ve ever done is right now a teenager who’s been taller than I am since 2024.