Ferran Sayol
Researcher
Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications
Pere Virgili Health Research Institute
Spain
Biography
He hold a degree in Biology from the University of Barcelona (2012), for which he received the Biology's extraordinary award. After graduation, he did a Master in Terrestrial Ecology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2013), with a final project supervised by Daniel Sol about the behavioural drive hypothesis. In 2014 he obtained a DURSI grant to conduct his PhD thesis under Sol’s supervision. His main goal in the thesis is to understand how organisms cope with environmental problems by means of behavioral adjustments and how this can affect their ecology and evolution. He use relative brain size as a proxy of the capacity of organism to construct new behaviors and to find innovative solutions to socio-ecological challenges. A transversal goal of his thesis is thus to find out in which circumstances a large brain might evolve.
Research Interest
To understand how organisms cope with environmental problems by means of behavioral adjustments and how this can affect their ecology and evolution
Publications
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"The life-history basis of behavioural innovations Sol D., Sayol F., Ducatez S., Lefebvre L.2016Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences37100"
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"Relative brain size and its relation with the associative pallium in birds Sayol F., Lefebvre L., Sol D.2016Brain, Behavior and Evolution87: 69-77"
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" Ferran Sayol Predoctoral researcher f.sayol@creaf.uab.cat935813420Office: C5b/-152 researchergate profile twitter profile I hold a degree in Biology from the University of Barcelona (2012), for which I received the Biology's extraordinary award. After graduation, I did a Master in Terrestrial Ecology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2013), with a final project supervised by Daniel Sol about the behavioural drive hypothesis. In 2014 I obtained a DURSI grant to conduct my PhD thesis under Sol’s supervision. My main goal in the thesis is to understand how organisms cope with environmental problems by means of behavioral adjustments and how this can affect their ecology and evolution. I use relative brain size as a proxy of the capacity of organism to construct new behaviors and to find innovative solutions to socio-ecological challenges. A transversal goal of my thesis is thus to find out in which circumstances a large brain might evolve. Recent publications Environmental variation and the evolution of large brains in birds Sayol, F., Maspons, J., Lapiedra, O., Iwaniuk, A.N., Székely, T., Sol, D.2016Nature Communications700"
