Behavioural Ecology

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Reader in Evolutionary Biology, Behavioural Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, Unversity of Cambridge

EDUCATION AND BACKGROUND:
Dr Kilner has worked in the Department of Zoology in Cambridge since starting her PhD, although fieldwork on cuckoos and other brood parasites led to short spells at the Australian National University and Cornell University.

After finishing her PhD, she held a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (sponsored by the Wolfson Foundation) and then a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. In 2005 she was appointed University Lecturer and in 2009 she became Reader in Evolutionary Biology.

HONORS/AWARDS:
• 2010 Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal
• 2006 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Zoology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Our research uses animal families as model systems for investigating key topics in social evolution, animal communication and co-evolution. We work on birds in Britain, New Zealand and Australia, and we also study locally caught burying beetles in the laboratory in Cambridge.