Researcher, Theoretical Ecology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen

Contact: sbudaev * gmail.com — GPG Key ID 0x84219D43

2000, PhD. in biology (кандидат биологических наук) from the Russian Academy of Sciences (A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution).

My current research focuses on animal and human behaviour in the adaptive and evolutionary perspective. How cognition, behaviour and personality have evolved through adaptation and natural selection? In my work I try to integrate both proximate and ultimate causation and use both experimental and modelling approaches.

My principal research interests and experience are quite diverse and encompass these fields: (1) animal behaviour and cognition broadly defined, especially linked with ecology and evolution; (2) individual differences in animal behaviour, behavioural ecology, behavioural development, neuroscience, and evolution;(3) ecological models of competition and species invasion; (4) complex biological interactions in symbiont and parasite communities; (5) ecology and conservation, monitoring and assessment of aquatic ecosystems, the use of hydroacoustic methodology and GIS; (6) ecological and behavioural methodology and advanced statistical analysis.