Palina is a computer mathematician and a computer scientist with a special interest in studying collective behaviour (swarm intelligence) of biological and artificial systems. In her previous work, she focused on the development of decentralised collective decision-making algorithms with a particular focus on the individual cognition (in terms of preferences, opinions, and beliefs of an artificial agent) in the group and the impact of the environment on the self-organised consensus process. Within the SCIoI cluster, she works as a postdoctoral researcher on the synthetic side of Project 33 in collaboration with the team of biologists to understand the biological mechanisms underlying the predator-prey interactions in group hunting behaviour. Palina has also worked on the creation of the installation “Interact with the Fish School”, in collaboration with David Mezey. Check out Palina’s Google Scholar profile here.