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
PhD STUDENTS
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
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
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
Relationship between vocal communication and social networks: the case of the plains zebra (Equus quagga)
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
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
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
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)
Sabrina Engesser
Supervisors: Élodie F. Briefer
Research interests: behavioural ecology, animal communication & cognition, language evolution
Research project
Vocal communication in babbler birds
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
Ciara Sypherd
Helena Møller Nørgård
