Lucy APLIN

I currently hold joint positions as a SERI Professorial Fellow at the University of Zurich and an Associate Professor at the Australian National University. Previously, I held a Max Planck Research  Group Leader fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior, a Junior Research Fellowship at St John's College, University of Oxford. I studied for my PhD jointly at the Australian National University and the University of Oxford. My research focuses how new innovations, skills and knowledge can emerge, spread and persist in animal societies to form new cultural traits. My work in birds has focused on how the spread of the innovation and cultural traits might facilitate adaptive flexibility to anthropogenic change, and the implications of this  for conservation decision making. I head the 'clever cockie project', which uses urban sulphur-crested cockatoos as a model system to investigate these questions.

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