I am a comparative psychologist specializing in social cognition. Currently I work as an Assistant Professor at the Animal Ecology Group of Utrecht University (NL). My research mainly focuses on the proximate mechanisms underlying animal social relations, with special interest in cooperative and prosocial behaviours. For that I use both observational and experimental approaches. Moreover, to put my studies in an evolutionary perspective, I employ a broad comparative approach, focusing on a variety of primate and bird species.
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Ethology, Volume 126, Issue 2, Special Issue:
Studying the Evolution of Cooperation and Prosociality in Birds
January 12, 2020
Special Issue on Cooperation and Prosociality in Birds now Online!
As a guest editor I have edited a special issue in Ethology entitled "Studying the evolution of cooperation and prosociality in birds", which will be the February Issue (126(2)), and which includes an editorial by me and three papers on which I am a co-author. Cover is also by me.
