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Lysanne Snijders is an Assistant Professor in the Behavioural Ecology Group at Wageningen University. She completed her MSc thesis in 2009 at Wageningen University & Research, where she investigated parental care in partial migratory geese, which earned her the Alfred Russel Wallace Award. In early 2012, she began her PhD in the Behavioural Ecology Group at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, studying the role of personality in the social networks of great tits. She defended her PhD cum laude in 2016 and continued her research on social network dynamics in wild Trinidadian guppies while supported by an IGB-Postdoc Fellowship. In 2018, she started researching the personality and partial migration in wild bats at Leibniz-IZW, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc Fellowship. Returning to Wageningen University in 2020, she is exploring social foraging dynamics in wild guppies, with support from the NWO-Veni Postdoc Fellowship. With a passion for animal behavior, Lysanne is dedicated to inspiring others through her research and has lectured a MOOC on animal behavior. Her current research interests include exploring the link between social behavior and foraging success in Trinidadian guppies, and contributing to wildlife conservation efforts through systematic evidence synthesis regarding animal conditioning interventions to reduce Human-Wildlife conflicts. She is also involved in collaboration with WWF-NL.
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