Zukunftskolleg
Germany
fellow
Natalia Borrego
Discipline(s)
Biology
Biotechnology
Earth, environmental and climate sciences
Theme(s)
Artificial Intelligence
Behavior & Cognition
Future Studies
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Natalia Borrego is a postdoctoral behavioral ecologist interested in the selective forces shaping sociality and the proposed evolutionary links between sociality and advanced cognition. She studies variability in the social structure and cooperative complexity of African lions across habitats with differing levels of resource richness. Natalia aims to identify conditions under which sociality emerges (and breaks down), as well as conditions favoring cognitive complexity during cooperation.
Research Project
What do animals perceive? Advancing Multi-Sensor Biologging for Sensory Ecology Research
The long-term goals of this project extends beyond the immediate advancements in lion sensory ecology and biologging technology. By developing scalable, AI-driven tools for multi-sensor data collection and analysis, we aim to create a
foundation for future research that can be applied across diverse species and ecosystems. These tools will provide researchers with the ability to process vast datasets efficiently, enabling them to explore complex behavioural patterns and interactions in ways that were previously impossible due to technological limitations.
Research Interests:
Biology; Behaviour; Biologging; AI; Dataprocessing; Sociality