I am a behavioural biologist who is interested is social cognition and socio-ecology of primates. I work as lecturer at the Animal Behaviour & Cognition group, where I am involved in teaching in the Biology bachelor programme and Environmental Biology master programme. Besides my role as a lecturer, I was working on my PhD research at Leiden University. During my PhD, I studied the cognitive processes underlying mate preferences of zoo-housed orangutans, and I tried to identify methods to measure these preferences. To do so, I ran behavioral experiments with both zoo-housed orangutans and humans.