Education

2004-2010，Doctor of Neurobiology, University of Colorado

1996-2000，Bachelor of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh

Research experience

2023 to present, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Research Center, Southern Medical University, Professor

2021-2022 Research Center for Ecology and Genetics, Faculty of Science, University of Oulu, Postdoctoral Fellow

2018-2021 Department of Biology, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Postdoctoral Fellow

2013-2018 Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Behavioral Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher 2011-2013 Department of Biology, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Postdoctoral Fellow

2010-2011, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Postdoctoral Fellow

2000-2004, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Research Technician

Research direction and main academic achievements

Cwyn Solvi is mainly engaged in the research of bumblebee cognition and neurobehavior. She has published 3 papers in Science, 2 as the first author and corresponding author, and 1 as the co-first author. She received a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2016, the Central Beekeepers Association Research Award in 2019, the Biodiverse Anthropocenes Research and Support Grant in 2021 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China Research Fund for International Excellent Young Scientists in 2024.

Selected Publications

1. Solvi C#, Zhou Y#, Feng Y, Lu Y, Roper M, Sun L, Reid RJ, Chittka L, Barron AB, Peng F*. Bumblebees retrieve only the ordinal ranking of foraging options when comparing memories obtained in distinct settings. eLife. 2022; 11:e78525. (Co-first author; collaborated with Prof Fei Peng at SMU)

2. MaBouDi HD, Barron AB, Li S, Honkanen M, Loukola OJ, Peng F, Li W, Marshall JAR, Cope A, Vasilaki E, Solvi C*. Non-numerical strategies used by bees to solve numerical cognition tasks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences. 288 (1945): 20202711. (Corresponding author)

3. Solvi C*, Al-Khudhairy SG, Chittka L. Bumble bees display cross-modal object recognition between visual and tactile senses. Science. 2020; 367 (6480): 910-912. (First and corresponding author)