PhD Candidate, PhD Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

Dr. Hans Hofmann Lab

My research at the University of Texas at Austin investigates how the social environment influences individual behavior and cognition by integrating ecological, behavioral, physiological, and neuromolecular perspectives.

Sex differences in cognitive performance, style and domain relationships in mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) (2020) KJ Wallace, RT Rausch, ME Ramsey, ME Cummings Animal Cognition.doi: 10.1007/s10071-020-01367-2

Cryptic sexual dimorphism in spatial memory and hippocampal oxytocin receptors in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) (2017) MA Rice, LE Hobbs, KJ Wallace, AG Ophir. Hormones and Behavior 95: 94–102

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (National Science Foundation), 2020

Ford Foundation 2017 Predoctoral Fellowship (National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine) 2017

First Place Student Poster Award Ecological Integration Symposium, Texas A&M 2019

Best Student Presentation Award 7th Meeting of Poeciliid Biologists 2017