Broadly, I view myself as a tropical landscape ecologist interested in small-scale animal driven processes with repercussions on whole-ecosystem dynamics and functioning. I spend most of my time working on and thinking about megafauna ecosystem engineering in the rainforests of the Congo Basin. My research seeks to understand how tropical megafauna, such as African forest elephants and western lowland gorillas, modulate ecosystem functioning and structure in Afrotropical rainforests via seed dispersal, nutrient concentration, and tree mortality influences. Included in this, I am researching the role of megafauna in the creation and maintenance of large forest canopy gaps called bais that are critical nutrient hotspots for the animal community, as well as the implication of megafaunal ecosystem engineering on the dense carbon stocks of Congolese rainforests. I also work, or have worked, in various tropical/subtropical savanna and temperate ecosystems. Before starting my PhD in 2019, I worked as a researcher developing and deploying drone-based remote sensing techniques for a wide range of ecological and conservation applications.