I am a current HDR Candidate in the School of Philosophy at the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences. I begun my candidature in 2025. Beforehand, I completed my BBiomedSc at the University of Queensland in 2017. Following this, I completed my BArts (Hons) Philosophy at the Australian National University in 2023 under the supervisor of Prof. Kim Sterelny, who is now also my primary PhD Supervisor. 

I bring an empirical perspective to my philosophical interests which lie broadly under the domain of Philosophy of Nature and/or Biology. More specifically, I am interested in explaining the evolutionary origins and development of human-unique psychological traits such as emotion, morality and normative thinking. In particular, I direct my efforts toward synthesizing and integrating different theoretical domains in the hope this clarifies the nature, function and origins of these important psychological phenomena. To this end, I place an especially strong emphasis on bringing a cultural evolutionary perspective. Thus, my PhD thesis involves outlining a framework for the cultural evolution of emotion – where the nature of emotion is understood through a Psychological Constructivist perspective typified by such thinkers like Lisa Feldman Barrett and James A Russell. It is my hope that by clarifying and refining a plausible cultural evolutionary perspective I can advance the debates occurring between the constructivists and those adopting the standard psychoevolutionary model (i.e., affect program) of emotion. If emotions are psychologically constructed and culturally evolve many pre-theoretical intuitions concerning the nature of emotion will be upended and this will have implications in adjacent fields ranging from Emotion Theory, Clinical Psychology & Medicine, Metaethics & Moral Philosophy, Political Science and more.