Irene Godoy, PhD - Curriculum Vitae

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Postdoctoral Research Associate, March 2024 - present

Bielefeld University, Germany

Department of Animal Behaviour

Postdoctoral fellow, 2018-2023

Humboldt Researcher (2020-2023)

Bielefeld Young Researcher (2018-2019)

Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Faculty of Social Sciences

Lecturer (part-time, 2016-2018)

DEGREES AND QUALIFICATIONS

University of California – Los Angeles

Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Anthropology, December 2015

thesis: Kin recognition, mechanisms, and inbreeding avoidance in Cebus capucinus

Master of Arts, Department of Anthropology, June 2010

thesis: Testing Westermarck's hypothesis in a wild primate population: proximity during early development as a mechanism of inbreeding avoidance in white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus)

The College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Arts, Dept. of Psychology and Dept. of Environmental Studies, May 2005

with Distinction in Psychology and with Distinction in Environmental Studies

thesis: The development of effective social behaviors in the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater)

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

EXTERNAL

2019 Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers (2.5-year)
2016 International Society for Behavioral Ecology travel award
2012 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (~$15,000)
2012 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Research Grant ($13,500)
2012 American Society of Primatologists Ruppenthal Student Travel Award ($500)
2011 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant ($20,000)
2010 International Society for Human Ethology Owen F. Aldis Scholarship ($8,000)
2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (3-year)
2009 Ford Foundation Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship (3-year)

INTERNAL

2018-2019 Bielefeld Young Researcher’s Fund grant (1-year)
2011-2012 UCLA Department of Anthropology conference travel grant
2011-2012 UCLA Department of Anthropology research grant
2010-2011 UCLA Department of Anthropology conference travel grant
2009-2010 UCLA Department of Anthropology conference travel grant
2009-2010 UCLA Department of Anthropology research grant
2009 NSF UC DIGSSS Summer Research Mentorship award
2008 Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program research award
2008-2009 UCLA Department of Anthropology research grant
2008 NSF AGEP Competitive Edge Summer research award
2008 Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship (5-year, tuition & fees)