My research focuses on motherhood among BaYaka foragers living in the rainforests of the Republic of the Congo. Combining methods from behavioral ecology and anthropology, I study BaYaka women's cooperation in foraging, childcare, knowledge transmission, and their autonomy in household decision-making. Since 2015, I have worked closely with BaYaka mothers.
I am currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), France.
Professional Appointments
2024– Research fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Toulouse, France
2020–2024 Postdoctoral researcher, Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2024– Postgraduate certificate in Public Health (Distance learning), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
2020 PhD, Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2014 MSc, Behavior and Ecology, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
2012 BSc, Biology, Molecular and Life Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea