*co-supervised

Current

Katy Willcox* (PhD, 2021 – now) interested in understanding how early-life social environment influences the development of response inhibition in Japanese quails and in chickens.

Previous

Iris Boey (BSc, 2021-2022): she examined which landscape elements explained the type of nests jackdaws used in urban and rural environments.

Hera Casidsid* (BSc, 2017-2018): she focused on the social cues used by pinyon jays to elicit the display of caching behaviours.

Pieter de Backer (BSc, 2023-2024): he assessed the influence of multiple parameters associated with urbanization to predict singing activity in songbirds.

Loïs Jackson (MSc, 2022-2025): they investigated the importance of group composition on the link between aggression and sociability in Japanese quails.

J. Andrew McCausland* (undergraduate research assistant, 2017-2018): he contributed to the data collection during two experiments on response inhibition in pet dogs and sled dogs.

Lotte Meersschaert (MSc, 2023-2025): she compared the reproduction timing and the number of eggs and hatchlings in great tits over the years and between sites along an urbanization gradient.

Jari Philibert (BSc, 2022-2023): he compared the foraging behaviour of urban and rural birds.

Pommeline Quintyn (MSc, 2021-2023): she focused on the effect of thwarting access to food on the relationship between response inhibition and aggression in Japanese quails.

Bob Sanders (BSc, 2022-2023): he compared the onset of dawn chorus between urban and rural blackbirds.

Laura Stiles* (undergraduate research assistant, 2017-2018): she assisted with establishing the dog cognition branch in the lab and contributed to the data collection during an experiment in inhibitory control in pet dogs.

Meara Stow* (BSc, 2016-2017): she investigated the link between personality and inhibitory control in California scrub jays and black-billed magpies and participated in the data collection on an experiment in mirror self-recognition in California scrub jays.

Femke Timmerman* (MSc, 2022-2024): she focused on the effect of group size on laterality in Japanese quails.

Marie van de Walle (MSc, 2021-2023): she investigated the influence of positive social interaction on response inhibition in pet dogs.

Yasmine Verhelst (MSc, 2022-2024): she compared aggression in female and male Japanese quails.