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291CVCurriculum vitaeTom Roth was born in 1993 in Amsterdam and graduated from the Ignatius Gymnasium in Amsterdam in 2011. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Biology at Utrecht University cum laude (2012-2015). His bachelor thesis investigated how enclosure design influences natural locomotion behaviour in zoo-housed Bornean orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus). Hereafter, he continued with a master in Environmental Biology, specializing in Behavioural Ecology(2016-2018; cum laude).For his first master’s research project, supervised by Prof.dr. Liesbeth Sterck (Utrecht University) and Thomas Bionda (Apenheul), Tom used an observational approach to investigate the relation between dyadic aggression, affiliation, and social vigilance in zoo-housed western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). For his second master’s research project, he performed a field study on aggregation behaviour as a function of fruit availability in Sumatran orang-utans (Pongo abelii) in Sikundur Forest (North Sumatra, Indonesia) under supervision of Prof.dr. Serge Wich (Liverpool John Moores University) and Matthew Nowak (Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme). For his master’s thesis, Tom wrote a research proposal on identifying long-distance methods to test partner preferences in zoo-housed orangutans under supervision of Prof.dr. Mariska Kret (Leiden University).In 2019, Tom started his PhD at the CoPAN lab, part of the Cognitive Psychology Unit of the Institute of Psychology (Leiden University), in collaboration with Apenheul Primate Park (Apeldoorn). During the project, he was supervised by Prof.dr. Mariska Kret and later also dr. Yena Kim and dr. Juan Olvido PereaGarcía. During his PhD project he continued the work of dr. Evy van Berlo and Prof.dr. Mariska Kret, who were responsible for installing a touchscreen setup in the enclosure of the Apenheul orang-utans. Tom extended this previous work by also incorporating eye-tracking in the test setup. Furthermore, in collaboration with fellow PhD candidate Tonko Zijlstra and Prof.dr. Mariska Kret, Tom set up two testing facilities (touchscreen & eye-tracking) in the orang-utan enclosure of Ouwehands Zoo. To collect data with humans and engage the general public in research, Tom ran multiple studies for the general public in Apenheul Primate Park. In addition, he organized a large-scale speed-dating experiment in collaboration with fellow PhD candidate Iliana Samara and Prof.dr. Mariska Kret. Moreover, Tom was involved in teaching in the bachelor Psychology at Leiden University: Tom Roth.indd 291 08-01-2024 10:42