The Difference between the Sexes - From Biology to Behaviour

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Frank Cézilly

University of Burgundy, France

Biography

Aged 47, Frank Cézilly is currently Professeur de classe exceptionnelle at the Université de Bourgogne, in Dijon, and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His main areas of expertise are behavioural ecology and population biology. Frank Cézilly worked for his PhD at the Tour du Valat research centre, in the Camargue, studying group foraging in birds from 1987 to 1989, in which year he received his Doctorate degree from the Université de Provence in Marseilles. He then spent one year at the Edward grey Institute, Oxford University, in 1990 as a post-doctoral scientist, before returning to Tour du Valat to work on the population biology and behavioural ecology of the Greater Flamingo. In 1996, he left the Camargue to become Professor of Behavioural Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the Université de Bourgogne, in Dijon, eastern France. Today, Professor Cézilly's main research interests are mate choice and pair-bonding in monogamous species (including birds, fish and invertebrates), and the influence of parasites on the behaviour of their hosts. He is also involved in several projects in conservation biology in the Mediterranean and in the Caribbean.

Frank Cézilly is the author of more than 100 papers in international refereed journals and several books, among which a recent monograph on flamingos (The Greater Flamingo, 2007, T & A D Poyser, co-authored with Alan Johnson) and a textbook on animal behaviour (Behavioural Ecology, 2008, Oxford University Press, co-edited with Etienne Danchin and Luc-Alain Giraldeau). He is currently Chief Editor of the journal Behavioural Processes, and has been in the past consulting editor for the journal Animal Behaviour.