Ben Kawam is a PhD student in behavioural ecology at the German Primate Center,as a member of the research group of Julia Ostner & Oliver Schülke. He is also an external researcher in the Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and a Writing-Up Fellow at the KLI.

Ben is broadly interested in building bridges between theory and data to explain variation in animal behaviour. In his PhD research, he is (trying to) build a causal framework for the drivers of animal social network structure, using probabilistic and causal modelling.