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About

I study animal behavior, with the aim to discover more about animals' experiences of the world around them and how we can improve their welfare.

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Specific research topics that I have been working on are individual variation in abnormal behavior, social learning, communication, and individual responses to socially disruptive events, such as death. I have mostly studied these topics in mammals, especially primates. 

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Currently, I am studying stone tool use in island-living capuchin monkeys as an IMPRS doctoral student in the Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior and University of Konstanz. 

Research Themes