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Marine Conservation Ecology Course
My Role: student
My Instructors: Jonathan Allen & Matthias Leu
San Juan Island, Washington
Summer 2026
As part of a University of Washington summer course, I worked in a group of five to plan and execute a research experiment on eelgrass and the...
Project · August 29, 2026
Human-Wildlife Conflicts in the Anthropocene
My Role: student
My Instructors: Daniel Cristol and Christopher Monahan
Florida
January 2024
During a one-week intensive field course across Florida, I presented and led discussion with my partner about snail kite plasticity and invasive snails ...
Project · August 29, 2026
Geopolitics and Institutional Change: the Napoleonic Wars and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade
Abstract: Britain abolished its transatlantic slave trade in 1807 after MPs with ties to the Caribbean economy abandoned their opposition. What explains this shift? I argue that abolition was a protectionist policy that shielded established Caribb...
Project · August 29, 2026
Two new species of Liodessus diving beetles from Costa Rica (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini)
Publication · August 29, 2026
Double-bracket quantum algorithms for high-fidelity ground state preparation
Ground state preparation is a central application for quantum computers but remains challenging in practice. In this work, we quantitatively investigate the performance and gate counts of double-bracket quantum algorithms (DBQAs) for ground state ...
Publication · August 28, 2026
Neutrino thermalization via randomization on a quantum processor
The dynamical evolution of neutrino flavor in supernovae can be modeled by an all-to-all spin Hamiltonian with random couplings. Simulating such two-local Hamiltonian dynamics remains a major challenge, as methods with controllable accuracy requir...
Publication · August 28, 2026
Misconceptions among mental health treatment providers about OCD and PTSD
Abstract
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) share overlapping features for which similar cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) strategies can be employed. However, the comorbid presence of these condition...
Publication · August 28, 2026
Psychometric Properties of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale-II Self-Report
Abstract
The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) is one of the most commonly used instruments for assessing and quantifying the presence and severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms. Both the interview and self-report ...
Publication · August 28, 2026
Identity-Related Stress and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals: A Test of the Cognitive Behavioral-Minority Stress Model.
Abstract
Pinciotti and Feinstein's (2025) cognitive behavioral-minority stress model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) proposes to explain the development, presentation, and maintenance of OCD among sexual and gender minority (SGM) individu...
Publication · August 28, 2026
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