I am a PhD student at the University of Lincoln, UK, working on sociability and social competence in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys with Dr Teresa Romero (University of Portsmouth) and Dr Marcela Benítez (Emory University). Before starting my PhD, I worked on a range of projects with primates, including personality and social networks in squirrel monkeys, cumulative culture and social information use in brown capuchins, object play and tool use in long-tailed macaques, and canopy bridge use in samango monkeys. I have an MSc by Research in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in Anthropology from Durham University. 

I am broadly interested in social behaviour and cognition, and the complex interplay between an individual and their social environment. At the Capuchinos de Taboga field site, I am using a combination of observational data collection and field experiments at the platforms to investigate individual differences in social skill and socio-cognitive ability within and across contexts, and whether this relates to how integrated an individual is within their social network.