Education


Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 2018         

Master of Science (M.Sc.) in BioScience, Technology & Public Policy, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, 2012        

Bachelor of Science with Honours (B.Sc.H.) in Biology, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, 2009


Research experience highlights


Feb 2021 to present

Postdoctoral Fellow, PIs: Dr. Matthew Miller, Dr. Mark Loeb

Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada


Nov 2018- May 2020 

Research Associate and Lecturer/Assistant Professor

School of Science and Technology, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan


Jul 2018-Oct 2019 

Research Associate (unpaid), PI: Dr. Ganmaa Davaasambuu

Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA


Sept 2013-Nov 2018

Ph.D. student researcher, PI: Dr. Rupert Kaul

Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, ON, Canada

Community and volunteer activities


1. Immunopaedia (www.immunopaedia.org), open access Immunology knowledge exchange platform: active content contributor and ambassador at McMaster University.

2. Beyond Sciences Initiative (www.beyondsciences.org), student-led initiative for local and international community outreach, open-access research conferences: member of executive team at the University of Toronto 2015-2021.

3. Reviewer for academic journals (Cytokine; PeerJ; Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines; Malaria Journal; Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases; Plos One; Journal of the International AIDS Society; Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution; Tropical Medicine and Health, BMC Medicine).