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Professor Andy Radford is based in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol where his studies involve observing co-operation, conflict and vocal communications among animals. Professor Radford is partocularly interested in how the movement, community living, physiology, reproduction, and survival of animals are all affected when there is significant disruption from unnatural sources of sound. Among other areas of focus, this involves examining the impact on wildlife of man-made noise and interference from boats, windfarms and machinery. Professor Radford has worked in Australia, South Africa, French Polynesia and Panama. He has examined coral-bleaching in the Coral Reef off the coast Australia which impacts on fish and marine invertebrates. He has also explored how windfarms off the coast of the UK have disrupted the nesting habits of seabream. An additional specialist area is the unusual habits of Dwarf Mongoose in South Africa, a species where breeding only takes place among the dominant pair and other adults look after their offspring.

Education
1996 - BA Natural Sciences (Part II Zoology), University of Cambridge, 1998 - MSc Biology Integrative Bioscience, University of Oxford, 2003 - PhD Zoology, University of Cambridge

Affiliations
Member of the Faculty of Life Sciences Promotions Committee, Deputy Director, Graduate School, SoBS, Exams Officer in School of Biological Sciences (SoBS)

Accomplishments
2013 - University Research Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies, 2014 - Invited Fellow of the Society of Biology, 2020 - Best of Bristol Lecturers

Dr. Raffaela Lesch started her scientific career at the University of Vienna as an undergraduate student in a biology program with a focus on zoology, the study of animals. Lesch continued on this path during her Master of Science studies in Behavioral, Neuro- and Cognitive Biology. During her Ph.D., Lesch deepened her focus on animals and began research on acoustic communication in domesticated animals.
After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna, she began work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Animal Welfare at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna. Here at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, her lab, the Urban Domestication Lab, works on research questions related to animal domestication. They are currently establishing both field and laboratory research as well as citizen science projects.