Prof. Eniko Kubinyi is the head of the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University and also leads the MTA-ELTE Lendület “Momentum” Companion Animal Research Group. She studied biology, teaching, and video communication and received her PhD in ethology and DSc in neurobiology. Supported by an ERC Starting Grant, she has established the Senior Family Dog Project and the Canine Brain and Tissue Bank to study the cognitive ageing of dogs. She teaches behavioral genetics, domestication, animal personality, and human ethology at ELTE. Her work was acknowledged by the L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science, Junior Prima, and APA Frank A. Beach Comparative Psychology Awards. She is an alumna of the Young Academy of Europe and a founding member of the Young Academy of Hungary.