I studied Biological Sciences at Oxford University before moving to the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland to take up a Commonwealth PhD scholarship. I then worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge, where I was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship. In 2012 I took up a position as a Lecturer at the University of Auckland. In 2014 I was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, and in 2015 I was awarded the Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Award from the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Areas of Expertise:
Signature-testing, comparative cognition, cognitive biases and heuristics

Media Keywords:
New Caledonian crow, Kea, domestic dogs, Animal behaviour, Animal intelligence, Evolution of intelligence