CURRICULUM VITAE

HIGHER EDUCATION & ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

• since 2025

Research Associate (50%)

University of California Davis, United States

• 2022-2024

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

University of California Davis, United States (on a postdoc mobility fellowship granted by the Swiss National Science Foundation)

Research topic: The impact of human disturbance on animal culture 

In collaboration with: Prof Jennifer Smith, Prof Andrew Sih

• 2019 - 2022

Postdoctoral Researcher

Cognitive and Cultural Ecology Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell, Germany

Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Research topic: Mechanisms underlying social learning processes in great tits (Parus major)

PI: Prof Lucy Aplin

• 2016 - 2019       

PhD Candidate

School of Biology, Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Thesis title: Social transmission of foraging behaviour in bottlenose dolphins and its interplay with climate change

Supervisors: Prof William Hoppitt, Prof Michael Krützen, Dr Simon Allen, Prof Christopher Hassall

• 2012 – 2014    

Master of Science

Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Thesis title: Shelling - a novel foraging strategy in a population of bottlenose dolphins. Independently innovated or socially learned?

Supervisor: Prof Michael Krützen

• 2008 – 2012     

Bachelor of Science in Biology

University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland