My research on cognition and mate choice in budgies is featured in Las Cruces Sun News!

Marcelo's great convergent research with hummingbirds also featured in the article.

I am very excited to join the Safran lab at CU Boulder as an NSF postdoctoral fellow to investigate the impacts of social breeding on the evolution of cognition in barn swallows
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Our paper on cognition, personality, and stress in budgies is now fully available! Check it out here
I am interested in the evolution of animal cognition, communication systems, and mate choice. I am particularly fascinated by the individual variation in cognitive abilities in birds and how these abilities impact their mating and reproductive success. For my dissertation, I conducted a comprehensive study of female mate choice in Budgerigars, focusing on the role of male cognitive abilities in this choice.
Birdwatching at the base of Roraima, Bolivar State, Venezuela