OUR
TEAM
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Élodie F. Briefer
Head of the group
Research interests: animal behaviour, communication, emotions, cognition and welfare
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EMERITUS PROFESSOR
Torben Dabelsteen
Former head of the group
Research interests: acoustic communication, social organization, animal networks, animal personalities
LAB COORDINATOR
Tine Simonsen
POSTDOCS AND ACADEMIC GUESTS
Jeppe Have Rasmussen
Supervisors: Élodie F. Briefer
Research interests: acoustic communication, bioacoustics, animal behaviour, physiology, neural networks, deep learning
Research project
Automated species monitoring using deep learning-based detectors
Malene Friis Hansen
Supervisors: Élodie F. Briefer and Agustin Fuentes
Research interests: primate ecology and conservation, human-primate interactions, primate culture
Research project
The Long-Tailed Macaque Project
Romain Lefèvre
Supervisors: Élodie F. Briefer
Research project
Horse vocal communication: investigating the function of biphonation
Josefine Bohr Brask
Supervisors: Élodie F. Briefer
Research interests: social networks, network modelling, network analysis, social evolution, complex systems
Research project
The role of trait preferences in the emergence of social network structures
PhD STUDENTS
Jacopo Di Clemente
Supervisors: Élodie F. Briefer, Danuta Maria Wisniewska, Jacob Nabe-Nielsen
Research interests: marine biology, whales communication, noise pollution
Research project
Foraging, movements and communication of elusive rorqual whales under anthropogenic pressure
Isabel Driscoll
Supervisors: Marta Manser and Élodie F. Briefer
Research interests: animal cognition, communication, affective state, behavioural development, sociality
Research project
Encoding of affective state in meerkat vocalisations
Damaris Riedner
Supervisors: Élodie F. Briefer, Rasmus Heller and Marina Scheumann
Research interests: acoustic communication, animal behaviour, conservation genetics
Research project
Kinship and its impact on mate choice, vocalization and behaviour in southern white rhinoceros
Karina Stampe
Supervisors: Élodie F. Briefer and Thorsten Balsby
Research interests: communication, social networks, animal behaviour
Research project
Communication, emotion and defamation in an eupsittula parakeet
Anna N. Osiecka
Supervisors: Élodie F. Briefer and Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas
Research interests: vocal communication, rhythmicity, animal behaviour, social interactions
Research project
Vocal behaviour and information coding in a pelagic Artic seabird, the little auk (Alle alleI)
Dina Mostafa
Supervisors: Tecumseh Fitch, Élodie F. Briefer
Research interests: animal behaviour, animal communication, bioacoustics, collective behaviour, movement ecology
Research project
The pre-flight signalling in Greylag geese and how it used in the collective decision making of group flight
ALUMNI
Helena Møller Nørgård
Gonçalo Cardoso
Ciara Sypherd
Roi Mandel
Heidi Maria Thomsen
Supervisors: Torben Dabelsteen and Thorsten Balsby
Research project
Vocal behaviour and fission-fusion social dynamics of the orange-fronted conure
Sabrina Engesser
Supervisors: Élodie F. Briefer
Research interests: behavioural ecology, animal communication & cognition, language evolution
Research project
Vocal communication in babbler birds
Avelyne Villain
Supervisors: Élodie F. Briefer
Research interests: social partnerships, social effects on vocal communication, bioacoustics, social cognition, emotions, ecological constraints on vocal communication
Research project
Vocal contagion of emotions in sheep
Bing Xie
Supervisors: Élodie F. Briefer and Josefine Bohr Brask
Research project