Jan Verpooten
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I am writing a book about the evolution of artlike behavior in humans and animals. 

​I am presently researcher and manager (coordination team member H2020 EU-project Pop-Machina) in BEE - Behavioral Engeneering at the KU Leuven. Before I had appointments as lecturer in the Department of Social Psychology at Tilburg University,  a postdoctoral fellow in BEE - Behavioral Engeneering at KU Leuven, a junior research fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute, and a field assistant of Filippo Aureli in a study of the social behavior of spider monkeys in their natural habitat. I am also affiliated with BECO - Behavioural Ecology and Ecophysiology at the University of Antwerp. In addition, I am co-supervisor of Alexandra Crouwers's PhD in arts project  'The Appeal of the Unreal'.

I did a double PhD in philosophy (KU Leuven) and biology (University of Antwerp) with Andreas De Block, Siegfried Dewitte and Marcel Eens. I also studied painting for a couple of years before graduating in biology.

My work focuses on the biology of art and the art of biology.

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