I have had a lifelong interest in the biology of birds and other organisms. My main interests have included: 1) nesting associations between unlikely species, 2) bird conservation, 3) seabird ecology, 4) predator-prey interactions, and 5) the role that personality and cognition play in the lives of animals.
Experience
Currently Professor in Zoology, University College Cork
Lecturer in Biology at Pembroke College, Oxford, 2006-2012
Lecturer in Behavioural Mechanisms, University of Oxford, 2006-2012
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford, 2001-2006
Research Officer, Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Slimbridge, UK, 1990-1996
Education
DPhil, University of Oxford, "The behavioral ecology of red-breasted geese and their nesting association with birds of prey", 1996-2000
MSc, Biological Computation, University of York, 1989-1990
BSc Zoology, University College Dublin, 1984-1988