2015

• Field assistant in the Democratic Republic of Congo, working with bonobos (Pan paniscus) and collecting urine samples to understand how oxytocin hormone works in social interactions. Position supervised by Martin Surbeck, post-doc from the Max Planck Institute.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       2014

• One year in the Kalahari desert (South Africa) working on Cape ground squirrels (Xerus inauris) for Prof. Marta Manser (University of Zurich), studying social interactions, collecting adlib data, focal data, data analysis, and vocal recordings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       2013

• Study of house sparrow (Passer domesticus) in urban areas, ringing them and doing transects for their census. Later on, at the end of 2014, I did a nest check of Monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) for the same museum to see how this invasive species is increasing in Barcelona city. Institution: Musem of Natural Sciences of Barcelona

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       2011-13

• Research at the Museum of Naturals sciences of Granollers, studying the dynamics of small mammals (rodents and bats). Also developing a conservation plan for bats, changing the old marking (rings that were occasioning injuries) for transponders.