First person – Franziska Hacker

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Franziska Hacker is first author on ‘ An ethogram identifies behavioural markers of attention to humans in European herring gulls (Larus argentatus)’, published in BiO. Franziska conducted the research described in this article while a Master of Research student in Professor Paul Graham's lab in the School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton UK. She is now a scientific manuscript editor and aspiring PhD candidate with a strong interest in mammal and seabird cognition, behavior, sociality, communication, and conservation research.