Dr Elliot Howard-Spink

Elliot (He/They) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zürich, and a visiting researcher at Queen Mary University London. Elliot has an undergraduate degree and doctorate from the University of Oxford, with his doctoral research focusing on how wild chimpanzees perform tool-use behaviours across their lives. Elliot's research focuses on primate cultural processes, language evolution, and how primates develop and age in the wild. 

Currently, Elliot is researching how culture influences the development of foraging behaviours in wild orangutans (using a mixture of data from the wild and computer simulation), as well as how common marmosets combine vocalizations, and what this can tell us about the origins of human syntax.

Elliot can be contacted at [email protected]