Lauren J.N. Brent

Professor
University of Exeter                                                                            [email protected]
School of Psychology                                                                         @ljnbrent.bsky.social
Washington Singer Labs                                                                    Twitter, Google Scholar
                                                                                                              https://linktr.ee/laurenbrent
                                                                                    

Lauren Brent CV

• Professor in Ethology, University of Exeter (2023-present)
  
• Associate Professor, University of Exeter (2020-2023)
• Senior Lecturer, Psychology, University of Exeter (2019-2020)
• Lecturer, Psychology, University of Exeter (2016-2019)
• Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Psychology, University of Exeter (2016-2019)
• Postoctoral Associate, Psychology, University of Exeter (2014-2016)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University (2010-2014)
• PhD Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Roehampton, London, UK (2006-2010)
• MA Anthropology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada (2003-2005)
• BSc Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1999-2003)

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Dr Erin Siracusa

     POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
     aging in a social context + FriendOrigins - competitive drivers of social relationships

@erin_sira
[email protected]
erinsiracusa.weebly.com

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Dr Delphine De Moor

      POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
      FriendOrigins - social and ecological factors driving social relationships

@DeMoorDelphine
delphinedemoor.weebly.com

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Dr Sam Patterson

       POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER at New York University
       NSF Postdoctoral Fellow - effects of early life adversity on the pace of aging
       co-PIs: James Higham (NYU), Noah Snyder-Mackler (ASU), Lauren Brent (Exeter)

[email protected]
samkpatterson.wordpress.com

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Dr Conner Philson
    
      POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
      FriendOrigins - evolutionary and genetic drivers of social relationships

@ConnerPhilson
www.ConnerPhilson.com
        

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Dr Irene Godoy
      POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
      How social and environmental factors intersect with age

@CebusIGodoy
https://sites.google.com/view/irene-godoy/about-me

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Andre Pereira

      POSTGRADUATE STUDENT (PhD)
      the evolution of social relationships

@andre_s_pereira
[email protected]

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Ingerid Helgestad

      POSTGRADUATE STUDENT (PhD)
      economic decisions in a social environment
       co-supervised by Lisa Leaver & Sam Ellis

 [email protected]

   

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Libby Chapman
    
      POSTGRADUATE STUDENT (PhD)
      sociality and fitness in European rabbits
       co-supervised by Sam Ellis

@libby_chaps
exeterrabbits.weebly.com

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Josue Negron

      Research Assistant
      social relationships and individual differences in the rhesus macaque
      Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico

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Daniel Phillips

       Research Assistant
       social relationships and individual differences in the rhesus macaque
       Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico

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Macaela Skelton

         Lab Manager

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Alumni

 Postdocs
      Dr Sam Ellis
      Dr Robin Morrison
      Dr Beki Hooper

Graduate Students
        Will O'Hearn (MSc by Research)
                 cooperative mechanisms in rhesus macaques
        Rachel Crisp (MSc by Research)
                 dominance structure in the vampire bat
       Connie Allen (PhD)
                 leadership and sociality in male African elephants
       Melissa Pavez-Fox (PhD)
                 the health and sociality interface
        Jordan Hart (PhD)
                methods in animal social network analysis
        Camille Testard (PhD)
               social dynamics and the social brain