معرفی
Prof. Thibaud Gruber is an SNSF Professor at the University of Geneva, specializing in primate cognition and cultural transmission. His work bridges cognitive science, neuroscience, and comparative psychology to explore tool use, vocal communication, and emotion recognition in humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates.
- PhD in Psychology, University of St Andrews
- Postdoctoral training at CNRS, University of Zürich, University of Neuchâtel, and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Oxford
Research interests focus on animal culture, emotional vocalizations, social learning, and cross-species cognition. He collaborates with Didier Grandjean (Geneva) on emotion discrimination methods, Fabrice Clément's group (Neuchâtel) on human child experiments, and conducts cross-cultural studies in France and Serbia.
His recent articles highlight interdisciplinary trends in neuroscience (fNIRS studies of emotion processing), animal behavior (tool-use patterns and nesting ecology), and cognitive evolution (social norms and cultural dynamics). Collaborations span primatology, psychology, and behavioral ecology, emphasizing comparative frameworks.
- Advises Master's students: Marcos (2024), Ryser (2022), Kammermann (2022), and Debracque (2020)
- Grants include SNSF Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship, Marie Curie Sklodowska Fellowship, and Fyssen Foundation support
Co-founded the Neuchâtel Animal Emotion Dynamics (NEAD) group, developing methods to analyze great apes' emotion categorization abilities. His lab combines field experiments with neuroimaging and behavioral ecology approaches.
