I am interested in high fidelity social learning mechanisms (mostly 'action copying' in contrast to 'results copying'). I study these mechanisms within a comparative perspective in a diverse range of species, including great apes,human children,dogs and dolphins.
I am also interested in the evolution of human forms of culture (cultural evolution), and the influence of physiology on hunting behaviour in chimpanzees.
I am currently working as a Post Doc at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. This offers me the unique possibility to work with all four species of great apes at the Wolfgang-Köhler Primate Research Center (situated in the Zoo Leipzig).
