Carlota Galán Plana
Doctoral student
Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
e-mail:
carlota_galan_plana@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Background and interests
Education
Other Research Experience
Background and interests
Carlota joined the lab as a graduate student in the fall of 2023. Her research integrates genomic, demographic, and behavioral data to explore questions in evolutionary biology and ecology. Specifically, she is interested in the evolution of social behavior and its impact on population genomic structure, as well as the genetics and fitness consequences of inbreeding depression.
Her work focuses on various social mammals systems, including wild baboons from the Amboseli Baboon Research Project in Kenya, wild white-faced capuchins in Costa Rica, and captive mole-rat colonies from the Kalahari Research Project in South Africa.
Education
| 2023 – present | PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig |
| 2020 – 2021 | MSc, Research in Behavior and Cognition, University of Barcelona (UB), Spain |
| 2016 – 2020 | BSc, Biology, University of Barcelona (UB), Spain |
Other Research Experience
| 2023 | Research Intern, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig |
| 2021 – 2023 | Research & Field Assistant, Jane Goodall Institute Spain & Senegal, Senegal |