Jerome Micheletta
13 St Ronans Avenue
Porstmouth PO4 0QE, United Kingdom 
jerome.micheletta(at)port.ac.uk


RESEARCH

I’m working under the Supervision of Dr. Bridget Waller, Dr. Ed Morrison and Dr. Aldert Vrij.

My research focuses communication in crested macaques (Macaca nigra), combining field observations and cognitive experiments in captive populations to better understand communication in a tolerant macaque species. I’m interested in multimodal communication, specific function and emotional content of communicative signals, as well as their context-dependence. The experimental part of the study will investigate how crested macaques cope with these characteristics.


EDUCATION

• Present: PhD student, University of Portsmouth, Psychology Department: Social communication in crested macaques (Macaca nigra).

• 2005-2007: Master's degree, Ecophysiology et Ethology (with honours). Options: animal cognition, statistics, English, psychobiology, Anthropology and human evolution, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg.

 

• 2002-2005: Bachelor's degree, Biology. Options: animal behaviour, Population genetics and evolution,  Henry Poincaré University, Nancy.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

• April 2008-May 2009: Field assistant for the Macaca nigra project (Reproductive Biology Department, German Primate Center), Female social relationships in wild crested macaques (Macaca nigra) (North Sulawesi, Indonesia). Supervised by Julie Duboscq and Antje Engelhardt.

• August 2007 : Temp at the Primate center of the Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg). Resocialisation and ethological follow-up of a rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) group after an isolation period.

 

• February-August 2007: Internship at the Department of ecology, physiology and ethology (DEPE-CNRS) (Strasbourg), primate ethology group, directed by Bernard Thierry: The temporal dimension of exchange in Tonkean and Long-tailed macaques (M. Tonkeana, M. fascicularis).

 

• August-September 2006: Internship at the Department of ecology, physiology and ethology (DEPE-CNRS) (Strasbourg), primate ethology group, directed by Odile Petit: Collective movements in a group of rhesus monkeys  (M. mulatta).

• July-September 2005: Internship at the Department of ecology, physiology and ethology (DEPE-CNRS) (Strasbourg), primate ethology group, directed by Bernard Thierry: A comparative study of feeding competition: the use and fonction of cheek pouches in rhesus (M. mulatta) and Tonkean macaques (M. tonkeana).

 

LANGUAGE

 

• French: Native language
• English: Good level (TOEFL, GRE)
• German: Basic

 

COMPUTER SKILLS

 

• Internet
• Microsoft office 2003
• Statistical analysis software: SPSS, Minitab, Matman, Graphpad, Ucinet.
• Graphic design software: Photoshop, Paint.net.
• Behavioural transcription and timing software: Etholog 2.2.

 

SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS

• Pelé M., Dufour V., Micheletta J., Thierry B. Long-tailed macaques display unexpected waiting abilities in exchange tasks. published online in Animal Cognition. 2009.

 

• Thierry B., Pelé M., Micheletta J., Dufour V. Longtailed macaques wait long for returns in trading tasks. Oral communication. XXII^th Congress of the International Primatological Society, Edinburgh, United-Kingdom, August 3-8, 2008.

 

• Pelé M., Micheletta J., Dufour V. & Thierry B. The temporal dimension on trading in longtailed macaques. Oral communication, XXI^th XIX^th annual meeting of the French society of Primatology, Mulhouse, France. October 15-17, 2008.

 

• Molina-Vila P., Gustafsson E., Micheletta J., Petit H., Thierry B. A comparative study of food competition in rhesus and Tonkean macaques. XIX^th annual meeting of the French society of Primatology, Strasbourg, France. October 18-20, 2006. Folia primatologica, 78 (3). 2007.