Principal investigator
Insect sensory ecology, sensorimotor integration and neural basis of decision making.
CASCB Independent Postdoc
Insect neuroscience and VR - studying the behavioural, neural and molecular basis of collective marching and gregarious locust behaviour.
Postdoc - Humboldt fellow
Mechanisms of swarm initiation in marching locusts. I combine classic behavioural assays with VR to investigate how solitary individuals become gregarious and initiate swarming. Website
PhD Student
Motion vision, collective movement, multiunit ephys and VR
PhD student (with Ahmed El Hadi)
Spatial foraging and social phenotypes in locusts and RATS!
MSc student
Locust olfaction: linking starvation and social behaviour and a graphic designer
PhD student
Behavioural plasticity, variation and neurobiology, focusing on individual and population-level traits across phenotypic states.
PhD student - DAAD Scholar
Environmental drivers of locust swarming and collective behaviour, linking ecological context to molecular processes underlying swarming.
MSc student
Locust neuroscience, immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization for activity mapping.
MSc student
Locust social behaviour and solitarious colony maintenance
BSc student
Properties of marching in a virtual environment.