We are very happy to welcome our new Writing-Up Fellow Ben Kawam to the KLI. Ben is a is a PhD student in behavioural ecology at the German Primate Center, in the research group of Julia Ostner & Oliver Schülke. He is also an external researcher in the Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Ben’s research interest lies in building bridges between theory and data to explain variation in animal behaviour. His PhD he is working towards building a causal framework for the drivers of animal social network structure, using probabilistic and causal modelling.

During his fellowship at the KLI (15 May-14 November 2025), Ben will work on his project "Causal Inference for Animal Social Networks".

Know more about Ben from his website.

We wish Ben a wonderful time at the KLI and in Austria!