Malene Friis Hansen is an Associate Research Scholar researching the concepts of primate culture over time as a part of the larger Templeton Foundation Concepts grant as well as rediscovering and developing the field of Cultural Biology. Malene's work focuses on combining  Ethnology, Ethology and Ethnography in her research, especially to understand interspecific relationships and co-constructed cultures of human and other-than-human-animals, how they are created and how they are embedded in the lifeworlds that they share, and also what consequence this has for conservation of all parties. Malene earned her PhD at the Department of Biology at University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Zoo. Malene is the Head of Science and Research and co-Founder of the Long-Tailed Macaque Project, which is a conservation collaboration and capacity-building project working in SE Asia. Malene has been published in Science Advances, Conservation Science and Practice, International Journal of Primatology, American Journal of Primatology, Frontiers of Conservation Science, Frontiers in Zoology, Contributions to Zoology, Primates and Primate Conservation. She is a member of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group, Section for Human-Primate Interactions and a co-author of the Recommendations for Responsible Primate Watching for Tourists and for Tourism Practitioners. Malene has spent several years researching human-macaque interactions and macaque ecology in Indonesia and Malaysia, and also has years of practical experience with wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, husbandry and teaching. She is a research affiliate at University of Copenhagen and Oxford Brookes University, and a member of the Oxford Brookes University Wildlife Trade Research Group. She is currently working remotely from Denmark and can be contacted via email.