Dániel Rivas-Blanco

Dániel Rivas-Blanco is an Exchange Doctoral Candidate in the last year of his PhD. He did his Bachelor’s degree in the University of Santiago de Compostela from 2009 to 2013 and his Master’s degree in the University of Córdoba from 2013 to 2014, both in Spain. Later on, he worked as a Research Assistant in several academic institutions, starting with the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology (Munich, Germany) from 2015 to 2016, and later on from 2017 to 2018; performing experiments on New Caledonian crows and contributing to data analysis of an experiment done with parrots. Concurrently to that, he also did data analysis at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (France) for an experiment done in several species of corvids in late 2017. Finally, he worked analyzing data on hierarchical scores and doing behavioral observations of dogs and wolves at the Domestication Lab, part of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (Austria) from 2018 to 2020. It was in this last location that he started his PhD titled “Cognitive processes underlying problem solving abilities in dogs and wolves” supervised by Friederike Range, and focused on the physical cognition abilities of wolves and dogs. Currently, he is working at the Adaptive Behaviour Lab, part of the William James Center for Research at the University of Aveiro under a 1-year Marietta Blau exchange grant (Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation, OeAD), conducting experiments with starlings and dogs exploring their inference by exclusion capabilities.

Supervised in WJCR by: Tiago Monteiro