I am a computational ethologist and neuroscientist trying to fundamentally understand animal behaviour.
I use video tracking and pose estimation to quantify animal movements, and analyse it with a range of statistical and machine learning methods to produce meaningful descriptions of behaviour. I am interested in the process of description and classification of behaviour itself, how internal states relate to behaviour, how behaviour evolved and the roles it plays in evolutionary processes.
In my recent work I have investigated relationships between behavioural states and environmental context, behavioural individuality, and internal states through the lens of respiratory patterns; all in the ground beetle Nebria brevicollis.
