ECR Spotlight – Mathilde Martin

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Mathilde Martin is an author on ‘ Use of acoustic signals in Cape fur seal mother–pup reunions: individual signature, signal propagation and pup home range’, published in JEB. Mathilde conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Isabelle Charrier's lab at the Institute of Neurosciences Paris-Saclay (NeuroPSI), CNRS & Paris-Saclay University, France. She is now a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Prof. Marta Manser at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, investigating acoustic communication to decipher how vocal signals modulate social interactions in group-living mammals, in relation to the species' ecological constraints.