Alba Motes Rodrigo

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Ecology and Evolution of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). My research focuses on linking individual and group level processes in social species. Currently I am investigating social diffusion processes (epidemics and information flow) in a variety of species (social insects and primates) using automated data collection methods, field experiments and social network analysis. During my PhD, I was part of the ERC STONECULT project where I conducted cognitive experiments with great apes on stone knapping acquisition to recostruct how early hominins acquired their technological repertoires and cultures. Previously, I studied song acquisition and learning in norwegian pied flycatchers, tool-excavating behaviour in chimpanzees and primate laterality.