ECR Spotlight – Eleanor Caves

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Eleanor Caves is an author on ‘ Nanoscale ultrastructures increase the visual conspicuousness of signalling traits in obligate cleaner shrimps’, published in JEB. Eleanor conducted the research described in this article while an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She is now an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Brown University, USA, investigating behavioural ecology, animal vision and evolution, particularly using marine cleaning interactions to ask questions regarding how organisms perceive their visual world, and how that perception influences how animals perceive, recognize and communicate with other individuals.