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Michael Chimento
PhD Candidate
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Expertise:
cultural evolution, animal culture, agent based modeling
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Dominik Deffner
Post-doc
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Expertise:
Collective learning experiments, social learning, cultural evolution, mathematical and agent-based modeling, Bayesian statistics, causal inference
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Victoria Franks
Other
Expertise:
Social behaviour & networks, conservation, early-life behaviour
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Stefanie Gierszewski
Other
Expertise:
Animal/fish behaviour, mate choice copying, FishSim Animation Toolchain, computer animation, web development.
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Zoë Goldsborough
PhD Candidate
MPI of Animal Behavior
Expertise:
Animal behavior, social learning, welfare, primates, tool use, thanatology, non-human culture, individual variation
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Rachel Harrison
Post-doc
University of Lausanne
Expertise:
social learning, conformity, behavioural flexibility, tool use, animal behaviour, comparative psychology
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Taylor Hersh
PhD Candidate
Dalhousie University
Expertise:
culture, dialects, behavioral ecology, bioacoustics, cetaceans
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Friederike Hillemann
Post-doc
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Expertise:
behavioural ecology, foraging behaviour, social behaviour, social networks
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Edith Invernizzi
PhD Candidate
University of St. Andrews, UK
Expertise:
animal behaviour and evolution, collective behaviour, agent-based modelling, statistical analysis
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Brett Jesmer
Professor
Virginia Tech
Expertise:
movement ecology, foraging behavior, animal nutrition and demography
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Riana Minocher
PhD Candidate
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
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Alba Motes Rodrigo
Post-doc
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne
Expertise:
learning mechanisms (specifically imitation and individual learning), non-human culture, cumulative culture, tool making and use
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Sabine Nöbel
Post-doc
Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
Expertise:
behavioural ecology, sexual selection, mate choice, conformity, humans, fish, fruit flies, lab experiments
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Xinyue Pan
Other
University of Maryland, College Park
Expertise:
social psychology, culture, soical norm, cooperation, gossip, evolutionary game theory
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Marco Smolla
Post-doc
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Expertise:
dynamic social networks, social learning, cumulative cultural evolution
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William Daniel Snyder
PhD Candidate
University of Tübingen
Expertise:
Human evolution, paleoanthropology, stone tools
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Marisa Tietge
Master Student
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Expertise:
animal behavior; sexual selected behavior; acoustic coomunication; bats
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Sonja Wild
Post-doc
University of Konstanz
Expertise:
social learning, NBDA, animal culture, social learning strategies
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Mason Youngblood
Post-doc
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Expertise:
cultural evolution, behavioral ecology, phylogenetics, agent-based modeling, bayesian inference