I am a biological anthropologist interested in primate behavioral ecology and animal culture. My research focuses on understanding whether and how the complex tool-use behaviors observed in wild chimpanzees may have emerged through cumulative cultural evolution – a process widely considered a hallmark of human evolution.

To address these questions, I investigate how chimpanzees in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo, originally innovated complex tool-use behaviors and how they socially transmit and maintain these tool-use skills within their community.

I am a member of the Goualougo Triangle Ape Project, working under the supervision of Drs. Crickette Sanz and David Morgan.