Presentation
Since the beginning of my career, I focused my interest on social behavior. I studied it from different angles: social ontogenesis, collective behaviors, and the influence of the social context on individual behaviors. During my doctoral research (University of Toulouse 3, France), I studied the sociality of spiders in both the laboratory and the field. I used various approaches, including behavior observation, modeling, and chemical and physiological analyses, and I developed related skills. I then obtained a competitively awarded post-doctoral grant and integrated the Animal Ecology Group at the University of Vigo (Spain). This post-doc allowed me to develop new competencies in the fields of life-history evolution, eco-physiology, and parental effects. In this institution, I carried out various experiments to study the collective behaviors of fish. I then worked as a post-doc in a collaboration between the University of Lund (Sweden) and the University of Cambridge (UK) where I studied the perception and collective behavior of three spinned sticklebacks.
In 2023, I was granted a Sonata project from the National Science Center of Poland, and I am currently working in the Museum and Institute of Zoology (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) where I study the ontogenic and evolutionary changes of social behavior in spiders.
My research will contribute, most importantly, to improving our understanding of the evolutionary processes leading to sociality.
I am also the developer of AnimalTA. The aim of AnimalTA is to provide researchers with a free and user-friendly video tracking program easily accessible. Learn more bout AnimalTA!
