Nick is a postdoctoral fellow in mathematical biology at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has also been awarded the Australian Discovery Early Career Research Award to work with Craig Moritz at Australia National University in Canberra. He is developing a method to jointly estimate distribution models for a group of  related species, linking the large-scale processes studied by historical/phylogenetic biogeography with the fine-scale environmental niche models used in species distribution modeling.