Talia Borofsky joined the High Meadows Environmental Institute as a postdoctoral research fellow in August 2023 and is also affiliated with Hebrew University University’s Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Department.  She received her Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University, where she researched the evolution of social learning and cooperation by predators with advisor Professor Marcus Feldman.

She is now researching reciprocal niche construction between ecologically distinct types of cooperative traits.  Her research will be conducted in collaboration with Princeton Professors Simon Levin, Daniel Rubenstein, and Naomi Leonard (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), as well as with Professor Erol Akçay (University of Pennsylvania) and Professor Gili Greenbaum (Hebrew University).  Through this collaboration, she will use both theoretical modeling and data analysis to untangle the connections between ecology and the evolution of cooperation.