University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Ann Arbor, Michigan); K. I. Satpayev Institute of Geological Sciences (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Early-career Kazakh-American paleobiologist investigating the evolution of life history traits, such as reproduction, the mechanism in which genetic mutations are passed down for natural selection to act upon. Recent projects include the founding of the Kazakhstan Paleontology Project (est. 2023), and demonstrating that early therian mammals did not conform to the marsupial-placental dichotomy.
