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"People often ask me, “Why go through all the trouble of collecting floral scents directly from the field? Can’t you just pluck the flowers, boil them, and extract the essence?” Well, sure, I could do that—but it would only give me a chemical snapshot of the flowers, but not the story behind the fragrance."

"I consider my research process a difficult conversation. It is a conversation I have with the object/subject at hand – be it a bone, teeth, fossil or stone-tool from the paleolithic era…. from more than even a million years ago!"

"My research project seeks to understand what shapes human behaviour towards wildlife and wildlife conservation."