My research aims to elucidate how ecological mechanisms, evolutionary principles and abiotic factors govern the dynamics and structure of food webs in aquatic ecosystems. I am most interested to study more complex ecological mechanisms that shape food web structure and dynamics. Examples of such mechanisms that are studied by me include inducible defenses, adaptive sweeps within evolving phytoplankton populations, fungal parasitism of phytoplankton and keystone predation by fish and birds.