My research on cooperation shows how animals can achieve more together than alone and I bring this insight into the classroom. I encourage students to share diverse perspectives and work toward common goals, creating a supportive environment where students thrive collectively while developing independence as thinkers.
Into Science. University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria (Main instructor)
Canine Evolution. Behaviour, and Cognition. University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria (Teaching assistant)
Domestication and dog cognition. University of Michigan (2025)
Cooperation in the animal kingdom. Mount Holyoke College (2024)
Cooperation in the animal kingdom. Hampshire College (2023)
Ana Grilc. Can dogs generalize what they learned in a cooperative task to new human and conspecific partners? (2023)
Selina Schöndorfer. Do dogs coordinate with a conspecific partner in the Assurance Game? (2021)
Jasmin Schmid. The Joint-Simon effect in pet dogs: a pilot study (2021)
Appolline Kurt. Pet dogs' understanding of their conspecific partner's role in a cooperative task (2021)
I supervise interns projects both in the lab and the field, guiding students through all stages of research, from designing experiments to collecting analyzing and presenting the data.