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 Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour at the Department of Zoology, Oxford University 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.