Recent PhD graduate (UCM contract)

Although I have always been fascinated by animal cognition and personality, my current scientific research focuses on how animal behaviour can affect the dynamics of evolutionary ecology. Using different approaches ranging from simulations and model application to experiments with passerines in captivity and in the field, I try to address the potential ecological and evolutionary consequences of phenotype-dependent habitat selection behaviour.

Furthermore, through this multi-pronged approach, I try to fit into conventional evolutionary ecology the idea that the environment can be seen as an integral part of the organism with its own evolutionary dynamics as it is inherited from parent to offspring when individuals select it.

Supervisors: Francisco Pulido and Pim Edelaar