My research takes place in human-other primate interfaces in Southeast Asia, mainly with the highly synanthropic macaques. After gaining a PhD in Biology, I spent my postdoc years in Anthropology and am now working on developing the theory and methodology for the unexplored field of Cultural Biology to understand past and current human-other animal interfaces, their cultural relationships, individual choices, interspecific communication and social learning, and co-constructed ecologies. https://aias.au.dk/aias-fellows/current-fellows/malene-friis-hansen 

As an AIAS-AUFF fellow I will not be teaching, but I have extensive teaching experience in Conservation Biology, Behavioural Ecology, Research Methods, Field Ethics and Human-Other Animal Interactions

I am a part of the 3-2-1 Go Group Tracks and Footprints (https://aias.au.dk/aias-fellows/collaborative-theme-groups-3-2-1-go/tracks-and-footprints) and an active member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Species Survival Comminssion, Primate Specialist Group, especially in the Section on Human-Primate Interactions (https://human-primate-interactions.org/). I am also a part of the IUCN SSC Ecotourism and Species Conservation Specialist Group, as well as a Scientific Advisor for the Long-Tailed Macaque Project.