Associate Professor

My primary focus is on animal evolutionary biology, with emphasis on the causes and consequences of variability of cognitive functions such as learning, memory, and executive functions like cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control. This includes examining these cognitive mechanisms in the context of human-driven environmental changes. I work with a diverse range of species, particularly fish, amphibians and aquatic invertebrates. My research has been widely recognised and published in leading zoological journals such as Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Animal
Behaviour, Behavioral Ecology, and Animal Cognition, as well as in prestigious biology and multidisciplinary journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Proceedings of the Royal Society B. I am currently writing a book on fish cognition for Princeton Unviersity Press.