Sigal Balshine
Professor, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour

I am professor at McMaster University, in Hamilton. My research interests are centered on evolutionary behavioural ecology with a special focus on sociality, breeding system evolution andanthropogenic impacts on behaviour. I mostly study fish behaviour but have also published research on human and birds. I received my B.Sc. in Zoology from the University of Toronto, and my Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (Zoology with Tim Clutton-Brock). I have held post-doctoral fellowships at Tel Aviv University (with Arnon Lotem), at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology in Vienna (with Michael Taborsky) and the University of East Anglia in Norwich (with John Reynolds). I joined the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour (PNB) at McMaster in 2000 and am also an associate member of the Department of Biology at McMaster University. I take graduate students in both departments. I absolutely love doing field work and if you want to know more about me, please visit my group’s web page, the Aquatic Behavioural Ecology Laboratory ABEL: https://abel.mcmaster.ca