Known synonymously as The Bird Lady and The Dancing Professor, Nicky’s work focuses on the behaviors and cognitive abilities of birds. Indeed it is her passion for birds that led to the development of her career as a scientist and her work in dance. Currently Nicky is the Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. She is also the first ever scientist in residence at Rambert, Britain’s flagship touring dance company, a position she has held since 2011, and cofounder of The Captured Thought, a science-arts collaboration which explores the subjective experience of thinking, together with her tango partner, Clive Wilkins, who is artist in residence in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.