Prior to joining Warwick Business School she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig ). She studied Biology at the Freie University of Berlin and received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Leipzig under the supervision of Michael Tomasello, Brian Hare and Josep Call. She investigates the phylogenetic roots and the development of human cooperative and prosocial behavior. She conducts studies with humans (mainly young children) and chimpanzees in African sanctuaries. Profile site