As a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Ben Sheldon at the Edward Grey Institute for Field Ornithology at the University of Oxford, I studied the behaviour of great tits and blue tits in Wytham Woods, investigating how the presence of birds of prey influences the social networks of the birds.
At Aoraki Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand I studied the behaviour of Kea (the cheeky mountain parrots) as part of a research project on social cognition in birds led by Ludwig Huber.
As a doctoral student at the University of Vienna I studied social learning in marmoset monkeys, asking how adult monkeys learn from each other about food sources, whether they imitate each other and how juveniles learn about edible food from their parents and older siblings.
As a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Strasbourg and the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin I developed theoretical models of the evolution of cooperation, working together with Roland Noe and Peter Hammerstein.
