31.05.2024Mathilde Martin received the prize for the best PhD of the year 2023

Mathilde Martin is a postdoctoral researcher in the Communication and Cognition in Social Mammals research group of the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich. She is currently interested in deciphering how close calls produced by meerkats during foraging reinforce group cohesion and what information these vocal signals convey between emitters and receivers.
On the 24th of May 2024, Mathilde received the prize for the best PhD of the year 2023 from the French Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour (SFECA) at the 53rd edition of the SFECA annual colloquium, held in Albi, France. She was rewarded for the originality and quality of the work she carried out during her PhD (2019-2023) on the acoustic communication network of the Cape fur seal. Her work involved describing the species’ vocal repertoire, evaluating the degree of individuality in the seals’ vocalisations, and investigating individual vocal recognition at several levels of the communication network.

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