Christin Albrecht

Use of Social Cues in Competitive Soaring Flight

Christin is a computational neuroscientist and avid paraglider pilot whose research explores how individuals perceive and use social cues when navigating dynamic atmospheric environments. Using competitive paragliding as an experimental platform, she investigates how pilots visually detect and interpret the movements of others to infer the presence of thermals and other invisible airflows. By combining high-resolution flight tracking with behavioural analyses, her work examines how social sampling of atmospheric energy influences movement decisions and performance in complex aerial environments.