My name is Juliane Gaviraghi Mussoi (she/her), and I am a Lecturer in Animal Behaviour at the University of Waikato.

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My main research interests are avian behaviour, cognition, and the evolutionary/ecological factors behind them.
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I earned a BSc in Biological Sciences from UCS (Brazil). During my second year of undergrad, I got a scholarship to study for a year at Thompson Rivers University (Canada). That is where I fell in love with animal behaviour and birds. Right after graduating I started my two-year master's degree in Animal Ecology at Lund University (Sweden) and discovered the fantastic world of avian cognition. I completed my PhD and postdoc at the University of Auckland studying the effects of sleep disturbances on bird song.​​