Melissa is a doctoral student working on the relationships between urban carnivores, pets, and citizens in Turku. Her main work focuses on the influence of human attitudes towards urban carnivores, human-nature relationships and the behavioural adaptation of meso-carnivores in urban environments.

Matis is a french master student who studies the impact of the social environment (number of friends, group stability) on the oxytocin levels in Asian elephants

Victor is working on two projects: 1) "Early life effects on later life personality in Asian elephants from Myanmar", and 2) "Personality, sociality and health in a large mammal"

Topic: "Adaptation of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) to the urban environment"

Topic: "Social and environmental determinants of health and survival in Asian elephants"

Topic: "Behavior of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in a novel object test setup"

Topic: "Investigating the link between personality and allomothering in working elephants from Myanmar"

Topic: “Effects from human-animal relationships and personality on behavioural responses in the Finnish sledging reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)”

Topic: "Investigating the personality of elephant handlers from Myanmar"

Topic: “Factors affecting behavioural differences during a novel object test in Asian elephants”

Topic: "The association between parasite infection and hormone activity in asian elephants"

Topic: “The influence of the social group structure on the parasitic infection of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)"

Analysing serum cortisol concentrations using an enzyme-immuno assay

Analysing behavioural and ecological data of Asian elephants from Myanmar

Topic: “Differences in physical and physiological health measures between wild-caught and captive-born elephants”

Topic: “Elephant-Mahout working relationship and how it affects elephants’ responses to work orders”

Topic: “Stress and coping behaviour in Asian elephants”

Topic: “The effect of friendships on the health of the Asian elephant”

Topic: “Measuring personality in newly-hatched Eider ducklings (Somateria mollissima): pitfalls and solutions”