Affiliate Members

Dr. Brendan Barrett

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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Phone: +49 0341 3550-345
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Dr. Jacob Davidson

Postdoctoral Researcher, Biology, University of Konstanz

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Dr. Fabian Dvorak

Postdoctoral Researcher, Economics, Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz

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Phone: +49 7531  88-4074

Room: E 213

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Office Hours

by appointment (email)

Responsibilities

Research interests:

Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Social Interaction and Collective Behavior, Behavioral and Social Neuroscience 

Dr. Roi Harel

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Dr. Martin Imhof

Research Scientist, Psychology, University of Konstanz

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Room: C 527

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Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der AG Allgemeine & Biologische Psychologie (Schupp)

Dr. Urs Kalbitzer

Research Scientist, Biology, University of Konstanz

Prof. Dr. Mark van Kleunen

Professor, Ecology, University of Konstanz

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Phone: 07531 88 2997

Room: M 803

Post office box: 658

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Office Hours

nach Vereinbarung / by appointment

Dr. Gisela Kopp

Research Fellow, Biology, University of Konstanz

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Phone: 07531-885657

Room: Y 216

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Responsibilities

Hector Pioneer Fellowship

Affiliated with the  Department of Biology

Project: Sociality and Evolution

We are lacking an overarching framework that explicitly integrates behavioural ecology with macroevolution to identify the factors and processes that link behavioural traits with genomic evolution and diversification processes. This project will fill this gap by building the links in the explanatory chain that connect behavioural traits to diversification. To accomplish this, it will follow four parallel and complementary lines of research:
I. Which data and analyses are needed to efficiently describe diverse social systems across taxa in a quantitative way?
II. Do these descriptors consistently correlate with measures of genetic structure and diversity across taxa?
III. Is genetic structure and diversity a predictor of diversification and species richness?
IV. Do certain behavioural traits, through their effects on diversity and differentiation, impact diversification patterns on a
macroevolutionary scale?
These questions will be adressed by using approaches from different biological disciplines, including remote and automated colleciton of behavioural data in wild animal populations using novel tracking technologies, social network analysis of animal societies, comparative analysis of georeferenced DNA sequences, non-invasive population genomics, estimation of trait-dependent diversification rates and phylogenetic comparative methods.

Fellow since 03/2018

See detailed profile: https://scikon.uni-konstanz.de/en/persons/profile/gisela.kopp/

Publications on KOPS

Dr. Lior Lebovich

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Collective Behavior

Dr. Edward McLester

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Dr. Tracy Montgomery

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Diego Morales

Biology, ZUKOnnect and Herz Fellow 2022

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Affiliated with the Department of Biology

Project: Cell signalling data mapping into cell trajectories from live imaging

Understanding how cell signaling and tissue morphodynamics are coupled during embryogenesis is still an open question in developmental biology. Cell signaling and reaction-diffusion models have been extensively used to understand self-regulated pattern formation during embryonic development. However, due to the lack of experimental tools to simultaneously visualize tissue dynamics (i.e. cell movements) and signaling in vivo, these studies are restricted to time scales in which tissue morphodynamics can be neglected. To overcome this need, we propose developing a novel mathematical model that can estimate activation levels of different signaling pathways with high spatio-temporal resolution during early zebrafish development. Briefly, signaling data (i.e. extracted from immunostained fixed embryos) will be sparsely mapped the into single cell trajectories from the live imaging experiments (i.e. SPIM microscopy images). Then a statistical model based on random fields and an optimal linear predictor will be used to generate a continuous description of the signaling activation levels over time and space. The model will be applied to study some of the most important signaling pathways active during early zebrafish development, such as Nodal, BMP and FGF.

Herz Fellow from 07/2022

Prof. Dr. Thomas Müller

Professor Dr. of Philosophy, Philosophy, University of Konstanz

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Phone: +49 7531 88-2567

Room: G 504

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Dr. Hemal Naik

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Dr. Hansjörg Neth

Research Scientist, Psychology, University of Konstanz

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Phone: +49 7531  88-2972

Room: D 529

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Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der AG Sozialpsychologie & Entscheidungsforschung (Gaißmaier)

Dr. Chase Nuñez

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Dr. Mantas Radzvilas

Postdoctoral Researcher, Philosophy, University of Konstanz

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Post office box: 21

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Divya Ramesh Ph.D.

Research Associate, Neurobiology, University of Konstanz

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Phone: +49 7531 88 3052

Room: M 1126

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Responsibilities

Understanding behavior using “neurochemical signatures” of the brain, using social insects as model systems and quantitative mass spectrometry. 

Dr. Eduardo Sampaio

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Prof. Dr. Marco F. H. Schmidt

Professor, Psychology, University of Konstanz

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Room: ZfP, Haus 22

Post office box: 905

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Office Hours

by appointment

Responsibilities

Developmental Psychology

Dr. Katherine Snell

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Migration, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Spohn

Professor em., Philosophy, University of Konstanz

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Phone: +49 07531 88-2503

Room: G 507

Post office box: 21

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Dr. Vivek Hari Sridhar

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department for the Ecology of Animal Sciences, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Prof. Dr. Sabine Storandt

Professor, Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz

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Phone: +49 7531  88-4433

Room: PZ 1003

Post office box: 67

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Dr. Hannah Williams

Group Leader, Biology, University of Konstanz

Dr. Irenaeus Wolff

Postdoctoral Researcher, Economics, University of Konstanz

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Phone: +49 7531  88-5122

Room: F 314

Post office box: 131

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Office Hours

by appointment (via E-Mail)

Responsibilities

Research

Experimental & Behavioural Economics; Models of bounded rationality; Behavioural public choice; Evolution of institutions, cooperation, and other social norms

Yuqi Zou

Biology, ZUKOnnect and Herz Fellow

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Affiliated with the Department of Biology

Project: The fitness consequences of collective coordination during predator mobbing

During the Herz Fellowship, Zou Yuqi will focus on collective predator mobbing. In social animals, collective decisions are a vital part of their daily live, including moving about and antipredator defense. Birds give diverse mobbing calls, presumably to recruit others and to coordinate collective predator mobbing. Individuals and groups likely vary in their collective decision-making during mobbing, but this aspect remains unexplored. The project will be carried out under the supervision of Dr. Michael Griesser and Prof. Iain Couzin.

Herz Fellow from 07/2022