Jennifer Morinay

Jennifer Morinay is a behavioural and evolutionary ecologist with research interests spanning from social learning, personality, habitat selection, and movement ecology. Her current research interests lies in understanding the evolution and the origin of individual differences when making informed decisions. During her PhD at the Universities of Lyon (France) and Uppsala (Sweden), she worked on the flycatcher-titmice system, studying sources of individual differences in heterospecific social learning, and in particular how could this behaviour depend on individual experience, personality, and cognitive abilities. Now half-way through her first postdoc at ISPRA (Italy), she collaborate with animal movement ecologists to investigate the use of social information for foraging decisions in colonial breeders, in particular in lesser kestrels. She will start as a MSCA fellow at NTNU (Norway) in September, where she will study how social bounds can explain dispersal and migratory decisions in a partial migrant seabird. You can follow her on Twitter and check her website for updates on her research.