Alice Auersperg is an Austrian cognitive biologist specializing in the evolution of intelligence in birds. Her research is focused on the physical cognition, play behavior, problem-solving and tool-making abilities in parrots and corvids. Since 2011, she has been managing the Goffin Lab of Comparative Cognition at the Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in Austria, where she has extensively studied the intelligence of the Tanimbar corella, also known as Goffin's cockatoo.