Broadly, my academic interests were in Riemannian geometry and geometric analysis. More specifically, my background and training was in spectral geometry, where one is interested in the interplay between the geometry of a manifold and the spectrum of some geometrically motivated differential operator (e.g. the Laplace-Beltrami operator). In my PhD thesis I investigated the singularities of the wave trace on lens spaces and flat manifolds (the so-called Poisson relation). After getting my PhD in Mathematics at Dartmouth College, I spent a year at Université Laval, where I was a CRM Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mathematics. At Laval I worked with Alexandre Girouard on questions related to the Steklov spectrum. After Laval, I did another post-doc at the University of Michigan. At Michigan, I branched out to investigate questions motivated by mathematical physics, fluid mechanics and numerical analysis.