She is currently the Estella B. Leopold Professor of Biology and an adjunct associate professor in Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington[1][2] and the Curator of Paleobotany at the affiliated Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
[4][5][6] Her master's thesis was titled "The conodont genus Ctenognathodus in the Silurian of Gotland.
"[7] She obtained her Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the University of California at Berkeley with a dissertation titled "The origin and spread of grass-dominated ecosystems during the Tertiary of North America and how it relates to the evolution of hypsodonty in equids.
"[8] She subsequently held postdoctoral positions at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (2004-2006) and the U.S. National Museum of Natural History (2007) before obtaining her current faculty and curatorial positions at the University of Washington in 2007.
[25] She has been an associate editor at Palaios since 2013[26] and maintains an active research lab at the University of Washington.