Amaro Tuninetti

Amaro Tuninetti is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biological Sciences at the University of New Hampshire’s College of Life Sciences and Agriculture. His research focuses on echolocation behaviors in bats, particularly how they adapt biosonar signals in complex environments like dense swarms or cluttered spaces. He holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Brown University.

Research interests include acoustics, animal behavior/ethology, animal cognition, comparative/animal psychology, and hearing mechanisms. His work combines field studies in tropical regions like Borneo with lab-based neurophysiological and machine learning approaches to reconstruct biosonar signals.

Key research trends involve understanding adaptive echolocation strategies in crowded environments, frequency modulation dynamics, and the integration of biosonar data with flight control. He has conducted field studies in Brunei Darussalam and developed models like the SCAT framework for analyzing wideband biosonar signals.

Current projects include a NSF-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship investigating sensorimotor dynamics during collective bat flight. His work bridges neuroscience, ecology, and engineering to uncover principles of active sensing in nature.

Labs/Teams: Collaborates with bat sensory ecology groups at UNH and international partners in Borneo. Focuses on interdisciplinary approaches combining field observation, neurophysiology, and computational modeling.