His work focuses on social cognition and decision making, in both humans and non-human animals. After completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge, he took up a Bellairs postdoctoral fellowship at the McGill field institute in the West Indies, followed by a Royal Society postdoctoral fellow in Montreal, before returning to Europe in 2003. He is currently examining the interplay between social and individual information gathering and, using comparative studies, the evolution of cognition and behavioural flexibility. Session 2 General Discussion