Dr. Péter Pongrácz (PhD habil.) is an associate
professor at the Department of Ethology (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest,
Hungary). He graduated as a biologist in 1994 and received his PhD degree in
2000, from the same institute. His graduation thesis topic was predator
avoidance in fish fry, and his PhD dissertation covered how rabbits learn to
distinguish between conspecifics and non-conspecifics. He is a lecturer in
undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral education at the Department of Ethology
since 1999. He supervises the research activity of students at all levels and
leads research projects as principal investigator. His current research
interests involve sociocognitive capacities of cats and dogs, including social
learning, self-representation and hierarchy-related behaviours. Since 2020, he
is Editor-in-Chief of the Applied Animal Behaviour Science journal. He received
an award for Innovative Researcher at his Institute, as well as an award for
mentoring the most successful students in research.
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