Alex Kacelnik

Alejandro (Alex) Kacelnik grew up in Buenos Aires, where he studied Zoology and made his early research steps in comparative neurophysiology of amphibians, lizards and rats. In 1974 he took a British Council Scholarship in Oxford, where he completed a doctorate on decisionmaking in birds, a subject to which he has remained close ever since. He spent postdoctoral spells in Groningen, Oxford and Cambridge, but in 1990 he settled in Oxford, where he founded the Behavioural Ecology Research Group, which he chairs. He also holds Pembroke College’s E.P. Abraham Fellowship. While his experimental work focuses on decision making and tool use in birds, his theoretical interests cover many other aspects of animal behaviour.