Christensen Charlotte
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Research interests
Behavioural and physiological responses to environmental change; Fitness consequences of behavioural phenotypes; Behavioural Ecology; Endocrinology; Biologging; Machine learning
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Education and professional positions
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2026 – present |
Group Leader (SNSF Ambizione Fellow), Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
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2022 – 2025 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
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2018 – 2022 |
PhD in Behavioural Ecology and Socio-endocrinology, Biosciences Department, Swansea University, United Kingdom - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
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2016 – 2017 |
Field Manager, Max Planck Institute of Ornithology, Radolfzell, Germany |
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2014 – 2015 |
MRes in Behavioural Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom |
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2013 – 2015 |
Field Assistant / Project Manager, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, Dwarf Mongoose Research Project, Limpopo, South Africa |
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2010 – 2013 |
BSc in Psychology-Zoology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom |
Selected publications
- Christensen, C., Ferreira, A. C., Cherono, W., Maximiadi, M., Nyaguthii, B., Ogino, M., Herrera, D., & Farine, D. R. (2025). Moving towards more holistic machine learning-based approaches for classification problems in animal studies. Animal Behaviour, 230, 123386. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123386
- Christensen, C., Bracken, A. M., O'Riain, M. J., Heistermann, M., King, A. J., & Fürtbauer, I. (2024). More allogrooming is followed by higher physiological stress in wild female baboons. Biology Letters, 20(8), 20240163. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2024.0163
- Christensen, C., Bracken, A. M., O'Riain, M. J., Fehlmann, G., Holton, M., Hopkins, P., King, A. J., & Fürtbauer, I. (2023). Quantifying allo-grooming in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) using tri-axial acceleration data and machine learning. Royal Society open science, 10(4), 221103. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.221103
- Christensen, C., Bracken, A. M., O'Riain, M. J., Heistermann, M., King, A. J., & Fürtbauer, I. (2022). Simultaneous investigation of urinary and faecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations reveals short-versus long-term drivers of HPA-axis activity in a wild primate (Papio ursinus). General and Comparative Endocrinology, 318, 113985. DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2022.
- Christensen, C., & Radford, A. N. (2018). Dear enemies or nasty neighbors? Causes and consequences of variation in the responses of group-living species to territorial intrusions. Behavioral Ecology, 29(5), 1004-1013. DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ary010
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