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Ralph Peterson

Postdoctoral Fellow, Basis Research Institute

Ralph Peterson is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Basis, where he develops multi-agent models to study animal behavior. He is currently conducting fieldwork on collective behavior in NYC’s urban rat populations. Ralph earned his PhD in Neural Science from NYU, where he investigated vocal communication and auditory processing in social rodents using computational neuroethological approaches. Prior to his PhD, he developed quantitative methods for analyzing animal behavior at Harvard Medical School.