Dr. Scott MacDougall-Shackleton earned his Honours BSc (1990) and MSc (1991) in Biology at Queen’s University. He then moved to the Johns Hopkins University to complete his PhD (1997) in Psychology, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. MacDougall-Shackleton has been at the Department of Psychology at Western University in London, Canada, since 2002 where he is now Professor. He is one of the founders of the Advanced Facility for Avian Research.