Talks and posters

Keynotes

Insights from methods and models of ephemeral animal culture

Keynote, Culture Conference, Utrecht University @ Utrecht, NL (2025)

Invited seminars

New methods for studying social transmission in wild-living animals

Invited seminar, Neural Basis of Learning Seminar, Ruhr-Universität Bochum @ Bochum, DE (2026)

Social learning and social processes in two urban adaptor species

Invited seminar, Behavior & Biomechanics seminar, Oxford University @ Oxford, UK (2024)

Social dynamics influence cultural evolution through learning and attention mechanisms

Invited seminar, Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford @ Oxford, UK (2024)

Understanding social learning in great tits using dynamic learning models and the quantification of attention

Invited seminar, ESLR Society Seminar Series @ Virtual (2023)

Influences of social structures and processes on animal culture

Invited seminar, Ayatana's Biophilium Science School for Artists @ Chelsea, CA (2022)

Conference talks

Visual attention networks predict social learning in great tits (Parus major)

Conference talk, Cultural Evolution Society Conference @ UM6P, Rabat, MA (2026)

Capstone presentation: An innovation arms-race between parrots and humans?

Conference talk, Cultural Evolution Society Transformation Fund Capstone Conference @ Durham, UK (2024)

Great tits use payoff-biased learning when encountering spatial variability

Conference talk, Cultural Evolution Society Conference @ Durham, UK (2024)

The importance of environmental variability for the use of social learning strategies in a passerine bird

Conference talk, European Conference on Behavioural Biology (ECBB) Conference @ Zürich, CH (2024)

Social networks in flux: how immigrants shape cultural evolution in great tits

Conference talk, Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASSAB) Conference @ Sydney, AUS (2023)

How immigration can shape animal culture

Conference talk, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) winter conference @ Edinburgh, UK (2022)

The importance of turnover for cultural efficiency

Conference talk, Cultural Evolution Society Conference @ Sapporo, JP (Virtual) (2021)

Turnover facilitates cultural selection for efficiency

Conference talk, The 57th Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society (ABS) @ Virtual (2020)

Modeling strangers: population structure, fluidity and complexity in shared cultural systems

Conference talk, Cultural Evolution Society Conference @ Tempe, AZ, USA (2018)

Conference posters

Transmission depends on trajectory: movement rules reshape spreading dynamics

Poster, ALIFE 2025: The Ciphers of Life @ Kyoto, JP (2025)

Information loss through population turnover promotes cultural evolution

Poster, Royal Society Scientific Meeting: The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines @ London, UK (2022)

Turnover increases cultural selection for efficient behaviors

Poster, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) summer conference @ Konstanz, DE (2019)

Cultural selection for efficiency

Poster, 3rd Annual ESLR Workshop @ Leipzig, DE (2019)

Seminars

Quantifying the role of visual attention for cultural transmission in wild birds (Parus major)

Seminar, BEEES (Behaviour, Ecology, Environment and Evolution Seminar), University of Zürich @ Zürich, CH (2026)

The influence of immigration on social learning in birds

Seminar, BEEES (Behaviour, Ecology, Environment and Evolution Seminar), University of Zürich @ Zürich, CH (2023)

Linking transmission and production in social learning: How transmission dynamics depend on behavioral production rules

Seminar, ESLR Society Seminar Series @ Virtual (2022)

How can turnover drive cultural evolution?

ECR talk, IMPRS Grand Challenges Symposium @ Konstanz, DE (Virtual) (2021)

Social mechanisms and cultural evolution in Parus major

ECR talk, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior Spring Retreat @ Konstanz, DE (Virtual) (2021)

Turnover and cultural selection for efficiency

ECR talk, IMPRS Grand Challenges Symposium @ Konstanz, DE (Virtual) (2020)

Demographic factors and cultural evolution in Parus major

ECR talk, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior Spring Retreat @ Konstanz, DE (2020)