Projects
My research explores two broad questions:
How does the prenatal environment affect development and behaviour?
How do personality differences within and between populations influence learning, cognition, and fitness?
My current post-doc is divided between two research projects, focussing on greylag geese in Austria and Darwin’s finches in the Galápagos Islands.
In previous positions, I have also studied superb fairy-wrens and zebra finches.
Free-flying stud population of greylag geese (Answer answer) at the Konrad Lorenz Research Center, Austria.
Common cactus finch (Geospiza scandens) building its nest on Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos.
Male superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus) at Cleland Wildlife Park, South Australia.
Male zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) studied during my PhD research at Deakin University, Australia.