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Peer-review

Peer-reviewer for Animal Behavior & Cognition, Animal Behaviour, Animal Cognition, Avian Conservation & Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, Behavioral Processes, Bird Conservation International, Communication Biology, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Veterinary Science (Animal Behavior and Welfare), Journal of Animal Ecology, Ornithology, Peer Community In Registered Reports, Royal Society Open Science, Scientific Reports.

Recommender for Peer Community In (PCI) – Registered Reports

Guest editor for Animal Cognition for the special collection “Social Cognition in a Human World

Funding

BOF Postdoctoral Fellowship, Universiteit Gent. Effects of early-life environmental factors on response inhibition and impulsive aggression. (€180,000)
University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship, University of Manitoba. Cache protection strategies in highly social and less social corvids. (CAD $36,000)
Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship 1, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Selection harvesting and physiological stress in the Ovenbird. (CAD $42,000)

From 2009-2024, six competitive travel grants (€3,700) to present at six conferences in Canada, the US, and the UK.

Teaching

Lecturer – creating new course content from scratch and evaluation, giving lectures, grading, giving feedback to students
2023                Animal Cognition (master), Universiteit Gent

Guest lecturer – creating lecture content, grading questions related to content provided
2024                Animal Behaviour & Cognition (undergrad), National University of Singapore
2022                Ornithology (master), Universiteit Gent

Supervisor – supervising students to design a research project and write a research report, grading reports
20212023        Research Paradigms in Experimental Psychology (master), Universiteit Gent
2021–2023        Paradigms in Experimental Psychology (undergrad), Universiteit Gent

Supervisor – leading course-related discussions, mentoring students, grading mock exams
2020                Population & Societies (undergrad), University of Cambridge
2019                Comparative Cognition (undergrad), University of Cambridge

Teaching assistant – mentoring students, providing feedback on written projects, helping with research projects, grading oral presentations, exam surveillance
2022                Field Training Biological Research (undergrad), Universiteit Gent
2018–2019     Brain & Behaviour (undergrad), University of Manitoba
2017–2019     Introduction to Psychology (undergrad), University of Manitoba
2018                Lab. of Animal Behaviour (undergrad), University of Manitoba