Danai is a behavioural ecologist interested in how group living animals coordinate their lives together. She did her PhD (2016-2021) at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour and the University of Konstanz, on the social structure and collective decision making of wild vulturine guineafowl. She then continued as a postdoc at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, at the University for Zurich on the vulturine guineafowl project (2021-2022). After her first postdoc, she became a fellow at the College for Life Sciences at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2022-2023) working on how animal societies respond to the rise of inequality. Danai is now a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Universities of Bristol and Zurich, in the labs of Stephanie King and Michael Krützen respectively, researching how the ability of individual male bottlenose dolphins to synchronise during motor and acoustic displays is linked to their reproductive success and how epigenetics shape this link. Danai is also an Associate Editor in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences and PeerJ.
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