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Alex
Kacelnik Professor of Behavioural Ecology, Department of Zoology E.P. Abraham Fellow of Pembroke College University of Oxford |
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| Alex
Kacelnik
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Professor of Behavioural Ecology, Head of the Behavioural Ecology
Research Group at the Department of Zoology, fellow of Pembroke College
and a director of Oxford Risk Research and Analysis, a spinout
company of Oxford University for the transfer of the scientific study of
decision making to industrial contexts. He has been among the founders
of the optimality approach to the study of animal behaviour while
remaining a firm advocate of the study of behavioural mechanisms, and
has proposed accounts of decision-making under risk that apply across
the animal kingdom, including humans. He has recently coordinated a
multidisciplinary two-year project on “The Sciences of Risk” at the
Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin, where biologists, economists,
anthropologists and psychologists contributed from their diverse
perspectives to a broad understanding of risk sensitivity. He is a
member of the European Academy and has received the 2004 Cogito Prize
for contributions to the integration of the natural and social sciences.
Email:
alex.kacelnik@zoology.oxford.ac.uk Postal:
Department of Zoology Tel:
01865 271164 |
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