People

Margot Rochelet (Intern)

Margot was a visiting placement student from L’Institut Argo, Rennes, Anger. Margot assisted with projects investigating experimental design and behavioural outcomes, and social scavenging behaviour.

Dr Dagmar der Weduwen (PhD student)

For her PhD, Dagmar studied social influence on foraging behaviour in archerfish Toxotes sp. Dagmar’s PhD was also supervised by Luke Rendell and Keith Sillar.

Anna Vegh (Intern)

Anna completed a summer internship with our group, funded by the FSBI and St Andrews' Research Internship Scheme.

Adèle Dubosque (Intern)

Adèle visited from the Engineering School in Agronomy, Agrocampus Ouest Rennes. For her internship, Adèle investigated social behaviour in hermit crabs.

Leah Gray (MRes student)

For her MRes, Leah studied the transmission of false alarms through animal groups. Leah is now doing a PhD on seabird ecology at the University of Aberdeen.

Dr Nick Jones (PhD student, Postdoc) 

Nick completed his PhD where he investigated factors that affect learning and foraging behaviour in archerfish. He stayed on as a postdoc to investigate aspects of fish welfare, and the consequences of inter-individual differences in cognition. He is now an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bayreuth.

Dr Edith Invernizzi (Postdoc)

Edith is interested in the cues and mechanisms underpinning behaviour, from human to non-human animals. She ran a project extending the work started during her PhD on the behavioural algorithm underlying self-organised collective nest construction in the ant genus Temnothorax. Edith is now working in industry.

Arantzazu Pagonabarraga Altisen (Intern)

Arantza was a placement student from the University of Manchester. She studyied the use of social cues by hermit crabs.

Annie Rowe (Intern)

Annie was a placement student from the University of Manchester. She compared how effective different laboratory measures of shoaling were at capturing fish shoaling behaviour.

Dr Karina Vanadzina (PhD student)

For her PhD, Karina used phylogenetic comparative methods to investigate the evolution of life history traits associated with parental care in ray-finned fishes and passerines. She also investigated nest camouflage in three-spined sticklebacks using imaging techniques. Karina’s PhD was also supervised by Catherine Sheard and Kevin Laland. Karina is now a postdoc at the University of Warsaw.

Dr Helen Spence-Jones (PhD student)

Helen is interested in the role of phenotypic plasticity in evolutionary dynamics. She uses the adaptive radiation of threespine stickleback into freshwater environments as a model system to examine the dynamics of multiple plastic traits under relaxed selection. Helen’s PhD was co-supervised by Kevin Laland. She is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany.

Anna Hills (Intern)

Anna was a placement student from the University of Manchester. She investigated how sampling- and experimental-design decisions affect hermit crab activity and behaviour measured under standardised conditions.