In 1981 I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Shortly after my birth I was taken to New York but I spent most of my life in Roswell, a city in Georgia several miles outside of Atlanta.
In 1999 I graduated from Lassiter High School and began my undergraduate eduction at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta Georgia. I majored in Psychology. In my junior year I studied abroad in England at the London School of Economics and Political Science where I was to discover evolutionary psychology. I took two very formative year long courses during my year at the LSE, these were evolutionary psychology with Dr. Andrew Wells, and the psychoanalytic study of society with Dr. Christopher Badcock. Andrew Wells gave a decidedly unique perspective to evolutionary psychology through his training in computer science. Chris Badcock's eye opening course combined Freudian ideas with evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and genetics.
Upon arriving back in Atlanta for my senior year I decided that I wanted to do my graduate work in evolutionary psychology and set about garnering some research experience. I did an internship for one year at the Language Research Center in Decatur Georgia with Dr. Charles Menzel collecting and organizing data and developing mapping tools for spatial cognition research in chimpanzees.
In May 2003 I graduated with a B.A. from Oglethorpe in Psychology and late that summer I moved to Austin, Texas to begin my graduate work in evolutionary psychology with Dr. David Buss. I have really enjoyed living in Austin and attending graduate school. Check out my research page for more information on what I'm working on.
If you're so inclined here are some photos of a trip (August 2004) that I took to Japan.
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