Dr. Laura M. Bolt is an Assistant Professor (research tenure-stream) of Forest Conservation Biology in the Department of Forestry and Institute of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Toronto. Dr. Bolt is a broadly-trained conservation biologist who holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (UK), University of Toronto, and Queen’s University (Canada). Her research interests include animal behavioural ecology, primatology, forest fragmentation, edge effects, animal communication, One Health, and sexual selection. Dr. Bolt’s publications have been named editor’s choice in American Journal of Biological Anthropology and most-cited in Primates and American Journal of Primatology. Her research is of broad interest to the general public and has received international media attention, with coverage by news agencies including National Geographic and the UK’s Daily Mail.

As director of University of Toronto’s Forests + Animal Behavioural Ecology (FABE) lab, Dr. Bolt’s research program investigates the behavioural ecology of animals and their habitats in order to better understand forest health.