Core team
Core team
The team members
ManyBirds is led by a core team of researchers, with separate specific study teams formed to lead on each study. If you are interested in collaborating or would like more information about the ManyBirds Study 1 on neophobia in birds, please review our projects, Sign up documents or contact us at: manybirdsproject1@gmail.com.
Core Team: ManyBirds (Feb 2021)
Study 1 Team: Neophobia in birds (Feb 2021)

Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison)
Anglia Ruskin University, UK
“I am a Lecturer in Animal Behaviour at Anglia Ruskin University, and a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. I use comparative, developmental and ecological approaches to exploring the evolution of cognition, particularly in birds and human children. I investigate potential applications for cognition research to conservation actions, such as in critically endangered Bali myna. “
Core Team: ManyBirds (Feb 2021)
Study 1 Team: Neophobia in birds (Feb 2021)

Dr Megan Lambert
Study 1 Team: Neophobia in birds (Feb 2021)

Dr Stephan A. Reber
” I am a crocodilian specialist and study cognition and communication in alligators.Crocodiliansandbirdsformthe last remaining Archosaurs. I investigate cognitiveperformance in several bird and crocodilian species. I then link these findings tophylogeny and the size of certain brain areas. This allows me to trace the path ofcognitive evolution through deep time in the Archosaurs”
Study 1 Team: Neophobia in birds (Feb 2021)

Dr Vedrana Šlipogor

Elias Garcia-Pelegrin
” My current research focuses on the use of deceptive motions to investigate attention, perception and complex cognition in corvids, cetaceans and primates, as well as the evolution of human artistic behaviour in the Upper Palaeolithic.”

Dr Jinook Oh
Study 1 Team: Neophobia in birds (Feb 2021)

Emma Arbeau
“I design and develop websites and apps to make the user’s experience easy, enjoyable, and accessible. While the exact methods varies from product to product and company to company, behavioral studies remain the main component of the processes. “
Study 1 Team: Neophobia in birds (Feb 2021)

Dr Claudia Mettke-Hofmann
” I investigate how evolutionary forces such as ecological factors, social organization, and life-style have shaped information gathering, learning, and memory on the species, population and individual (personality traits) level. “