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Julia is a Senior Lecturer for Ecology and Evolution at Imperial College London. Her research primarily focuses on the evolutionary basis of social traits, with studies focused on a wild population of house sparrows living on Lundy Island. Her interest in Ornithology has been kindled in Germany, where she grew up.
She later moved to Sheffield University where she put together the genetic pedigree of the sparrows living on Lundy Island and continues working on this population to this day. She also led a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, where she set up a captive population of house sparrows, that she moved with her when she accepted the position of Lecturer at Imperial.
She will present her research on mate choice, animal personality and social networks in House Sparrows.