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My research focuses on understanding primate behaviour and cognition, with a particular focus on their communication. Using a comparative approach, I investigate the evolution of key human traits such as language by studying the communication systems of our closest living relatives. My work has mainly focused on wild chimpanzees' and leverages field observations to unveil social drivers of communication as well as the ontogeny of vocal capacities.

Currently I am comparing the vocal communication of chimpanzees and bonobos, our closest living relatives, to better understand the evolutionary processes that may have led to the emergence of different communication systems, including human language.