PUBLICATIONS
De Moor, D., Brent, L.J.N. (2025)
Quality, quantity, and the adaptive function of social relationships
in press at Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
De Moor D*, Hart J, Franks D W, Brent LJN*, Bohr Brask J*, Silk M* (2025)
Layers of latency in social networks and their implications for comparative analyses
in press at Behavioral Ecology
Albery, G.F., Becker, D.J., Firth, J.A., De Moor, D., Ravindran, S., Silk, M., Sweeny, A.R., Vander Wal, E., Webber, Q., Allen, B., Babayan, S.A., Barve, S., Begon, M., Birtles, R.J., Block, T.A., Block, B.A., Bradley, J.E., Budischak, S., Buesching, C., Burthe, S.J., Carlisle, A.B., Caselle, J.E., Cattuto, C., Chaine, A.S., Chapple, T., Cheney, B.J., Clutton-Brock, T., Collier, M., Curnick, D.J., Delahay, R.J., Farine, D.R., Fenton, A., Ferretti, F., Fielding, H., Foroughirad, V., Frere, C., Gardner, M.G., Geffen, E., Godfrey, S.S., Graham, A.L., Hammond, P.S., Henrich, M., Heurich, M., Hopwood, P., Ilany, A., Jackson, J.A., Jackson, N., Jacoby, D., Jacoby, A.M., Ježek, M., Kirkpatrick, L., Klamm, A., Klarevas-Irby, J.A., Knowles, S., Koren, L., Krzyszczyk, E., Kusch, J.M., Lambin, X., Lane, J.E., Leirs, H., Leu, S.T., Lyon, B.E., MacDonald, D.W., Madsen, A.E., Mann, J., Manser, M., Mariën, J., Massawe, A., McDonald, R.A., Morelle, K., Mourier, J., Newman, C., Nussear, K., Nyaguthii, B., Ogino, M., Ozella, L., Papastamatiou, Y., Paterson, S., Payne, E.,
Pedersen, A.B., Pemberton, J.M., Pinter-Wollman, N., Planes, S., Raulo, A., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Sabuni, C., Sah, P., Schallert, R.J., Sheldon, B.C., Shizuka, D., Sih, A., Sinn, D.L., Sluydts, V., Spiegel, O., Telfer, S., Thomason, C.A., Tickler, D.M., Tregenza, T., VanderWaal, K., Walters, E.L., Wanelik, K.M., Wielgus, E., Wilson-Aggarwal, J., Wohlfeil, C., Bansal, S. (2025)
Density-dependent network structuring within and across wild animal systems
Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi: 10.1038/s41559-025-02843-z
Pavez‑Fox MA”, Siracusa ER, Ellis S, Kimock CM, Rivera‑Barreto N, Negron‑Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Ruiz‑Lambides A, Snyder‑Mackler N, Higham JP, Brent LJN*, De Moor D* (2025)
Socioecological drivers of injuries in female and male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 79, 47. doi: 10.1007/s00265-025-03587-3
De Moor D, MacaqueNet, Skelton M, Amici F, Arlet ME, Balasubramaniam KN, Ballesta S, Berghänel A, Berman CM, Bernstein SK, Bhattacharjee D, Bliss‑Moreau E, Brotcorne F, Butovskaya M, Campbell LAD, Carosi M, Chatterjee M, Cooper MA, Cowl VB, de la O C, De Marco A, Dettmer AM, Dhawale AK, Erinjery JJ, Evans CL, Fischer J, García‑Nisa I, Giraud G, Hammer R, Hansen MF, Holzner A, Kaburu S, Konečná M, Kumara HN, Larrivaz M, Leca JB, Legrand M, Lehmann J, Li JH, Lezé AS, MacIntosh A, Majolo B, Maréchal L, Marty PR, Massen JJM, Maulany RI, McCowan B, McFarland R, Merieau P, Meunier H, Micheletta J, Mishra PS, Sah SAM, Molesti S, Morrow KS, Müller‑Klein N, Ngakan PO, Palagi E, Petit O, Pflüger LS, Polizzi di Sorrentino E, Raghaven R, Raimbault G, Ram S, Reichard UH, Riley EP, Rincon AV, Ruppert N, Sadoughi B, Santhosh K, Schino G, Sheeran LK, Silk JB, Singh M, Sinha A, Sosa S, Stribos MS, Sueur C, Tiddi B, Tkaczynski PJ, Trebouet F, Widdig A, Whitehouse J, Wooddell LJ, Xia DP, von Fersen L, Young C, Schülke O, Ostner J, Neumann C, Duboscq J, Brent LJN (2025)
MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‑scale collaboration
Journal of Animal Ecology, 94(40), 519-534. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.14223
Pereira AS”, De Moor D, Casanova C, Brent LJN (2023)
The evolution of kinship composition in mammals
Royal Society Open Science, 10(7), 230486. doi: 10.1098/rsos.230486
Barrault C, Soldati A, Hobaiter C, Mugisha S, De Moor D, Zuberbühler K*, Dezecache G* (2022)
Thermal imaging reveals social monitoring during social feeding in wild chimpanzees
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1860), 20210302. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0302
Schülke O, Anzà S, Crockford C, De Moor D, Deschner T, Fichtel C, Gogarten J F, Kappeler P M, Manin V, Müller-Klein N, Prox L, Sadoughi B, Touitou S, Wittig R M, Ostner J (2022)
Quantifying within-group variation in sociality - covariation among metrics and patterns across primate groups and species
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76, 50. doi:10.1007/s00265-022-03133-5
De Moor D, Roos C, Ostner J*, & Schulke O* (2020)
Bonds of bros and brothers: Kinship and social bonding in postdispersal male macaques
Molecular Ecology, 29, 3346– 3360. doi:10.1111/mec.15560
De Moor D, Roos C, Ostner J*, & Schülke O* (2020)
Female Assamese macaques bias their affiliation to paternal and maternal kin
Behavioral Ecology, 31(2), 493–507. doi:10.1093/beheco/arz213
* equal contribution; ” supervised student co‑author
Quality, quantity, and the adaptive function of social relationships
in press at Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
De Moor D*, Hart J, Franks D W, Brent LJN*, Bohr Brask J*, Silk M* (2025)
Layers of latency in social networks and their implications for comparative analyses
in press at Behavioral Ecology
Albery, G.F., Becker, D.J., Firth, J.A., De Moor, D., Ravindran, S., Silk, M., Sweeny, A.R., Vander Wal, E., Webber, Q., Allen, B., Babayan, S.A., Barve, S., Begon, M., Birtles, R.J., Block, T.A., Block, B.A., Bradley, J.E., Budischak, S., Buesching, C., Burthe, S.J., Carlisle, A.B., Caselle, J.E., Cattuto, C., Chaine, A.S., Chapple, T., Cheney, B.J., Clutton-Brock, T., Collier, M., Curnick, D.J., Delahay, R.J., Farine, D.R., Fenton, A., Ferretti, F., Fielding, H., Foroughirad, V., Frere, C., Gardner, M.G., Geffen, E., Godfrey, S.S., Graham, A.L., Hammond, P.S., Henrich, M., Heurich, M., Hopwood, P., Ilany, A., Jackson, J.A., Jackson, N., Jacoby, D., Jacoby, A.M., Ježek, M., Kirkpatrick, L., Klamm, A., Klarevas-Irby, J.A., Knowles, S., Koren, L., Krzyszczyk, E., Kusch, J.M., Lambin, X., Lane, J.E., Leirs, H., Leu, S.T., Lyon, B.E., MacDonald, D.W., Madsen, A.E., Mann, J., Manser, M., Mariën, J., Massawe, A., McDonald, R.A., Morelle, K., Mourier, J., Newman, C., Nussear, K., Nyaguthii, B., Ogino, M., Ozella, L., Papastamatiou, Y., Paterson, S., Payne, E.,
Pedersen, A.B., Pemberton, J.M., Pinter-Wollman, N., Planes, S., Raulo, A., Rodríguez-Muñoz, R., Sabuni, C., Sah, P., Schallert, R.J., Sheldon, B.C., Shizuka, D., Sih, A., Sinn, D.L., Sluydts, V., Spiegel, O., Telfer, S., Thomason, C.A., Tickler, D.M., Tregenza, T., VanderWaal, K., Walters, E.L., Wanelik, K.M., Wielgus, E., Wilson-Aggarwal, J., Wohlfeil, C., Bansal, S. (2025)
Density-dependent network structuring within and across wild animal systems
Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi: 10.1038/s41559-025-02843-z
Pavez‑Fox MA”, Siracusa ER, Ellis S, Kimock CM, Rivera‑Barreto N, Negron‑Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Ruiz‑Lambides A, Snyder‑Mackler N, Higham JP, Brent LJN*, De Moor D* (2025)
Socioecological drivers of injuries in female and male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 79, 47. doi: 10.1007/s00265-025-03587-3
De Moor D, MacaqueNet, Skelton M, Amici F, Arlet ME, Balasubramaniam KN, Ballesta S, Berghänel A, Berman CM, Bernstein SK, Bhattacharjee D, Bliss‑Moreau E, Brotcorne F, Butovskaya M, Campbell LAD, Carosi M, Chatterjee M, Cooper MA, Cowl VB, de la O C, De Marco A, Dettmer AM, Dhawale AK, Erinjery JJ, Evans CL, Fischer J, García‑Nisa I, Giraud G, Hammer R, Hansen MF, Holzner A, Kaburu S, Konečná M, Kumara HN, Larrivaz M, Leca JB, Legrand M, Lehmann J, Li JH, Lezé AS, MacIntosh A, Majolo B, Maréchal L, Marty PR, Massen JJM, Maulany RI, McCowan B, McFarland R, Merieau P, Meunier H, Micheletta J, Mishra PS, Sah SAM, Molesti S, Morrow KS, Müller‑Klein N, Ngakan PO, Palagi E, Petit O, Pflüger LS, Polizzi di Sorrentino E, Raghaven R, Raimbault G, Ram S, Reichard UH, Riley EP, Rincon AV, Ruppert N, Sadoughi B, Santhosh K, Schino G, Sheeran LK, Silk JB, Singh M, Sinha A, Sosa S, Stribos MS, Sueur C, Tiddi B, Tkaczynski PJ, Trebouet F, Widdig A, Whitehouse J, Wooddell LJ, Xia DP, von Fersen L, Young C, Schülke O, Ostner J, Neumann C, Duboscq J, Brent LJN (2025)
MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‑scale collaboration
Journal of Animal Ecology, 94(40), 519-534. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.14223
Pereira AS”, De Moor D, Casanova C, Brent LJN (2023)
The evolution of kinship composition in mammals
Royal Society Open Science, 10(7), 230486. doi: 10.1098/rsos.230486
Barrault C, Soldati A, Hobaiter C, Mugisha S, De Moor D, Zuberbühler K*, Dezecache G* (2022)
Thermal imaging reveals social monitoring during social feeding in wild chimpanzees
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1860), 20210302. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0302
Schülke O, Anzà S, Crockford C, De Moor D, Deschner T, Fichtel C, Gogarten J F, Kappeler P M, Manin V, Müller-Klein N, Prox L, Sadoughi B, Touitou S, Wittig R M, Ostner J (2022)
Quantifying within-group variation in sociality - covariation among metrics and patterns across primate groups and species
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76, 50. doi:10.1007/s00265-022-03133-5
De Moor D, Roos C, Ostner J*, & Schulke O* (2020)
Bonds of bros and brothers: Kinship and social bonding in postdispersal male macaques
Molecular Ecology, 29, 3346– 3360. doi:10.1111/mec.15560
De Moor D, Roos C, Ostner J*, & Schülke O* (2020)
Female Assamese macaques bias their affiliation to paternal and maternal kin
Behavioral Ecology, 31(2), 493–507. doi:10.1093/beheco/arz213
* equal contribution; ” supervised student co‑author
PREPRINTS / IN REVIEW
Mielke A, Testard C, Motes Rodrigo A, Brent LJN, De Moor D (2024)
Observation methods in animal behaviour: A simulation study of performance
in review in Animal Behaviour.
De Moor D*, Chakrabarti S*, da Silva D, Hobaiter C, Khan N, McEwen E, Sen S, Suryanarayanan A, Thompson C, van der Wal J, Warkentin AS, Hella P, Graham K (2024)
The Animal Behaviour Collective: Building confidence and breaking barriers through community
in revision for Animal Behaviour.
Padget RFB”, Fawcett TW*, Darden SK*, De Moor D* (2024)
Choosing friends in an uncertain world: Information reduces relationship stability in a Bayesian model of cooperative partnership
EcoEvoRxiv. doi: 10.32942/X22W4Q
Cheng Z”, Pereira AS, Siracusa ER*, Brent LJN*, De Moor D* (2024)
Social bonds between non‑kin are common, but less stable, in a mixed‑related society
EcoEvoRxiv - in revision for Animal Behaviour. doi: 10.32942/X26P8D
Pereira AS”, Pavez‑Fox MA, Hart JDA, Negron‑Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Casanova C, De Moor D, Brent LJN (2024)
The impact of kinship composition on social structure
BioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2024.01.11.575037v1
Vaidis D, Miranda J, Buchanan E, Schmidt K, Yang YF, Kowal M, Topor M, Miller R, Misiak M, Wagge J, De Moor D, Altschul D, Azevedo F, Boucher L, Doell K, Exner A, Gjoneska B, Mede N, Miller J, Mushtaq F, Oliveira C, Paruzel‑Czachura M, Pavlov Y, Protzko J, Seetahul Y, Visser I, Elsherif M, Pronizius E (2024)
The advantage of big team science: Lessons learned from cognitive science
OSF Preprints ‑ in review at Collabra: Psychology. doi: 10.31219/osf.io/yvm5h
* equal contribution; ” supervised student co‑author
Observation methods in animal behaviour: A simulation study of performance
in review in Animal Behaviour.
De Moor D*, Chakrabarti S*, da Silva D, Hobaiter C, Khan N, McEwen E, Sen S, Suryanarayanan A, Thompson C, van der Wal J, Warkentin AS, Hella P, Graham K (2024)
The Animal Behaviour Collective: Building confidence and breaking barriers through community
in revision for Animal Behaviour.
Padget RFB”, Fawcett TW*, Darden SK*, De Moor D* (2024)
Choosing friends in an uncertain world: Information reduces relationship stability in a Bayesian model of cooperative partnership
EcoEvoRxiv. doi: 10.32942/X22W4Q
Cheng Z”, Pereira AS, Siracusa ER*, Brent LJN*, De Moor D* (2024)
Social bonds between non‑kin are common, but less stable, in a mixed‑related society
EcoEvoRxiv - in revision for Animal Behaviour. doi: 10.32942/X26P8D
Pereira AS”, Pavez‑Fox MA, Hart JDA, Negron‑Del Valle JE, Phillips D, Casanova C, De Moor D, Brent LJN (2024)
The impact of kinship composition on social structure
BioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2024.01.11.575037v1
Vaidis D, Miranda J, Buchanan E, Schmidt K, Yang YF, Kowal M, Topor M, Miller R, Misiak M, Wagge J, De Moor D, Altschul D, Azevedo F, Boucher L, Doell K, Exner A, Gjoneska B, Mede N, Miller J, Mushtaq F, Oliveira C, Paruzel‑Czachura M, Pavlov Y, Protzko J, Seetahul Y, Visser I, Elsherif M, Pronizius E (2024)
The advantage of big team science: Lessons learned from cognitive science
OSF Preprints ‑ in review at Collabra: Psychology. doi: 10.31219/osf.io/yvm5h
* equal contribution; ” supervised student co‑author
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution, MPI-EVA, Leizpig (present)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Research of Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter, UK (2020 - 2025)
- PhD - Behavioral Ecology, University of Göttingen, Germany (2016 - 2020)
- Research Assistant - Budongo Conservation Field Station, Uganda (2015 - 2016)
- MSc Biology - Ecology and Evolution, Ghent University, Belgium & Utrecht University, the Netherlands (2013 - 2015)
- BSc Biology, Ghent, Belgium (2010 - 2013)
