Main Focus
Vocal communication plays an important role in negotiating social interactions for animals that live in fission-fusion societies. I am particularly interested in studying the formation of dialects and how social factors influence vocal culture within groups. In my PhD, I studied the underlying processes and mechanisms of communication in parrots using both captive cockatiels and wild monk parakeets as model systems.
Curriculum Vitae
October 2024 - present: Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior, Germany Since January 2019: PhD student at the MPIAB and the University of Konstanz in the International Max Planck Research School for Quantitative Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution from Lab to Field. M.S. in Natural Resources and Environmental Science 2016 - 2019 (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois) B.A. in Psychology, Biology (minor) 2011-2013 (Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota)