Dr. Lauren Guillette

Dr. Lauren Guillette is the Principal Investigator of the Animal Cognition Research Group (ACRG) and an Assistant Professor of Comparative Cognition and Behaviour in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta in Canada. Members of the Animal Cognition Research Group have a broad interest in animal behaviour, with a particular focus on how learning and cognitive abilities allow animals to solve problems they face in the wild and they investigate the causes and consequences of variation in these abilities. Dr. Guillette moved to the University of Alberta in 2018 from the University of St Andrews in the UK where she was a Royal Society and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Fellow for five years. Before that Dr. Guillette obtained a PhD from the University of Alberta studying among-individual variation in cognitive abilities in wild-caught black-capped chickadees and a MA from Mount Holyoke College (USA) studying the adaptive significance of associative learning in larval antlions, which are a sit-and-wait predator. Dr. Guillette is currently the President of the Comparative Cognition Society and the incoming (Jan 2023) Editor-in-Chief of Learning & Behavior.

Websites: https://sites.psych.ualberta.ca/animal-cognition-ualberta/ Twitter: @LaurenGuillette