ECR Spotlight – Léna de Framond

Abstract

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology during our centenary year but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Léna de Framond is an author on ‘ Calibrated microphone array recordings reveal that a gleaning bat emits low-intensity echolocation calls even in open-space habitat’, published in JEB. Léna conducted the research described in this article while a master's student in Dr Holger R. Goerlitz's lab at the Acoustics and Functional Ecology research group, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany. She is now a scientific assistant in the lab of Henrik Brumm at Animal Communication and Urban Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Germany, investigating acoustic interactions between animals and their environments: what ambient noise, weather and conspecifics do to their acoustic signals and how they react.