I am a target driven individual with excellent interpersonal skills. I have a methodical approach to work, am confident working with volume and deadlines while maintaining a keen eye of detail and ensuring high quality.

I have longterm experience in promoting and organising activities in both areas, science education and science communication as well as in involving interested volunteers in all steps of the scientific research process (Citizen Science).

Currently I am a senior researcher at the University of Vienna. Before I was a postdoctoral researcher funded by self-acquired third party funds, carrying out behavioural physiology and citizen science research on greylag geese and northern bald ibis. In fact, I was educated as behavioural biologist with a research focus on the relationship between social context and physiology in group-living birds (e.g. steroid hormones, haematology and social behaviour) by adopting citizen science as a tool of research approach. Field work underpins my core research activity including observations of bird behaviour managing long-term monitoring activities. I have an ORCID accont.

Topics of interests:

Animal behaviour; Animal social behaviour; Social complexity in animals; Citizen science; Science communication; Science education

Current Activities: