Standing at the interface between evolutionary ecology and ecophysiology, my research mostly focuses on hormone-mediated phenotypic and developmental plasticity, and life-history variation. I use integrated approaches to tackle the questions I am interested, including experiments using captive and wild animals, statistical modelling to partition variation at different levels of biological organizations, as well as phylogenetic comparative methods. So far, birds have been my main model system due to my strong interest in ornithology. Nevertheless, I am always looking to expand my research to other interesting topics, the integration of other approaches and techniques, as well as non-avian model systems.