Curriculum vitae

Scientific education

2022 - todayPhD student at the Institute of avian research
2021Postgraduate internship at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain
2018 - 2021M. Sc. in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Padova, Italy
Thesis title: Behavioural responses to a decoy male in relation to plumage ornaments: 
male aggressiveness and extra-pair paternity in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca.
2015 - 2018B. Sc. in Biology at the University of Padova, Italy
Thesis title: Role of familiarity in the leader-follower dynamics in a killifish (Aphanius fasciatus).

Conference contributions

2023

Behaviour 2023 at Bielefeld University, Germany

  • Talk: “Does inbreeding affect personality? A study in Japanese quail chicks”
2022

10th European Conference on Behavioural Biology in Groningen, The Netherlands.

  • Poster: “Male aggressiveness during female fertile phase in relation to plumage ornaments, female traits and extra pair paternity”