Dora Biro

Dora Biro received her PhD from Oxford University in 2002. She subsequently held a JSPS postdoctoral research fellowship and a visiting professorship at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, Japan, before returning to Oxford as a Royal Society University Research Fellow in 2007. She is currently Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, and a Fellow of St Hugh’s College. Her research interests are centred on animal cognition, including navigation, numerical competence, tool use, culture and collective decision-making.