Dr. Isaac Schamberg

Prior to joining the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology as a College Fellow in 2018, Dr. Schamberg received his PhD in 2016 in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a postdoctoral scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and a visiting scholar with the Comparative Communication and Cognition Group at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on bonobo vocal communication and the evolution of language, with a particular interest in how and why bonobos produce call combinations (sequences of vocalizations consisting of multiple call types). His current work compares vocalizations across populations—using data he collected at the Lui Kotale and Kokolopori fieldsites—to understand the mechanism underlying vocal production in bonobos.