We are all beyond excitement to kick off the new branch of the Inkawu Vervet Project, namely the URBAN VERVET PROJECT - starting this November. Check out our beautiful new... read more →
From October 2022 onwards I have been accepted as an Honorary Research Fellow at our collaborating South African University of Kwazulu-Natal. This is wonderful news for maintaining our local collaboration... read more →
The influence of captive environments and human exposure on cognitive mechanisms in animals remain poorly understood. Although diminished neophobia, resulting from a safer environment and more “free” time, has been... read more →
Happy days and probably the highlight of 2021; I am excited to share the news that I have received an Ambizione Grant to start my own research group in 2022,... read more →
Past Summer I was lucky to be accepted a place in the transdisciplinary Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI). This involved three weeks of intense interactions and workshops with other early... read more →
Hand in Hand with my experience at the Diverse Intelligence Summer Institute, the Summer of 2021 continued to boost my transdisciplinary interests, as I was awarded a Junior Fellowship at... read more →
Check out my new article in PeerJ, where I study variation in problem-solving skills in chimpanzees. These brand-new results remind me of the wonderful opportunity I had to spend a... read more →
In December 2021, my application to continue the studies on primate curiosity was awarded a three-year grant by the Finnish Kone Foundation. The Kone Foundation rewards especially bold and ground-breaking... read more →
The local newspaper "Österbottens tidning" invited me for an interview about my current research projects and life in academia in general.
Part of my postdoc project has been to study curiosity in captive vervets. So after collecting the data at Mawana and the wild monkeys, we moved to this lovely place... read more →