About

I'm a behavioural and sensory biologist interested in studying how animals do the crazy things they do - especially at the nexus of sensory biology and collective behaviour.

Some of the animals I've studied (and am studying) are bats,..robots..social spiders..and...plants. I like to mix behavioural observations, sensory measurements, modelling, and cool tech with lots of Python code to understand more of the how and why of animal behaviour.

I am currently a research group leader at the University of Konstanz. Check out the research we do at the 'Active Sensing Collectives Lab'.

Thanks for landing up here, and do check out the other pages about my research, publications, and my blog where I've admittedly not been as regular as I hoped to be.

Updates

• 2026-02 : Our extended abstract on the SonoRo swarm-robotics platform to study acoustically-mediated collective was accepted at ANTS 2026. This is work led by Alberto Doimo showing how the SonoRo can exhibit collective behaviours in a de-centralised manner.
• 2025-09 : Check out our paper on multi-modal communication in noise. Work led by Lena de Framond on how dippers change their blinking patters with stream noise.
• 2025-03 : The 'Active Sensing Collectives Lab' is born. Check out our lab website here
• 2024-08 : BIGG news -- I was awarded the Carl Zeiss Nexus grant to start my own research group, stay tuned for more!