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I am an integrative biologist researching behavior. My lab combines behavioral neuroscience, evolutionary biology and urban biology. I am particularly interested in how signaling systems and their associated cognitive mechanisms evolve when there are evolutionary conflicts of interest between signalers and receivers. Using parent-offspring signaling in birds (begging) as a framework, I investigate how ecology and life history traits affect communication both across and within species. My urban biology work has two prongs: how bird song is affected by anthropogenic noise, and how ultra-processed foods influence nonhuman behavior, fitness and decision making.
As of fall 2022, I am an assistant professor of biology at Adelphi University.
As of fall 2022, I am an assistant professor of biology at Adelphi University.
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In my past scientific lives, I was a Stengl-Wyer Scholar at UT Austin, with Hans Hofmann and Mark Kirkpatrick, doing comparative and theoretical work on sex differences in parental care. Prior to that, I was a Junior Fellow with the Simons Foundation, with Dustin Rubenstein at Columbia University doing fieldwork with superb starlings in Kenya. I worked with Dr. Camilla Hinde at the University of Wageningen doing experimental fieldwork with great tits in The Netherlands. I did my DPhil with Ashleigh Griffin and Stu West, in the social evolution group in the Department of Zoology at Oxford (2013-17). I also studied chimpanzee social behaviour at Harvard University with Zarin Machanda, and capuchin monkeys at Susan Perry’s field site (Lomas Barbudal, Costa Rica).
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