Dr Jessica Oliva is a Lecturer within the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University, and head of the Social and Applied Psychology Research domain in the Graduate Diploma of Psychology Advanced course. Dr Oliva has experience in owner-dog attachment, dog social cognition and behavioural studies involving the application of intranasal oxytocin. Following the completion of her PhD at Monash University in 2015, Dr Oliva completed a Post-Doctoral position at the Institute of Research in Semi-chemistry and Applied Ethology (IRSEA) in France, investigating intranasal oxytocin and Dog Appeasing Pheromone in dog social cognition, and the influence of human attachment. Dr Oliva has 10 published papers to date and her work has been presented at 11 international conferences. She has been an invited reviewer for several Journal articles as well as an Editor for a special Frontiers in Psychology research issue on ‘Oxytocin and Social Behaviour in Dogs and Other (Self-) Domesticated Species’. As part of her current teaching and research position, she has supervised 10 4th year students to completion, and is currently supervising an additional 6 students.