About Mairin

I track the evolution of mammalian carnivore communities in deep time, particularly under scenarios of environmental change, using evidence from fossils. Currently, I do this as the Augustyn Family Curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology in Claremont, California, United States.

Until very recently (2022), I was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum in Los Angeles, California, U.S., and concurrently a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Merced.

In 2018, I earned my doctorate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), during which I was also a graduate student in residence in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

In addition to conducting my doctoral research, at UCLA I taught introductory ecology and behavior, vertebrate morphology, and mathematics for the life sciences. Previously, I earned my master's, also in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I started out double-majoring in Integrative Biology and Comparative Literature (Japanese and Russian) while scrubbing small carnivoran bones at the University of California, Berkeley.

In my spare time, I like to bake, bike, and hike.

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