Affiliate Members
Dr. Brendan Barrett
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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Dr. Jacob Davidson
Postdoctoral Researcher, Biology, University of Konstanz
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Economics, Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut an der Universität Konstanz
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Phone: +49 7531 88-4074Room: E 213
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by appointment (email)
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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
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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
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Room: Bücklestr. 526
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Professor, Ecology, University of Konstanz
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Phone: 07531 88 2997Room: M 803
Post office box: 658
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nach Vereinbarung / by appointment
Dr. Gisela Kopp
Research Fellow, Biology, University of Konstanz
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Phone: 07531-885657Room: Y 216
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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/
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Dr. Lior Lebovich
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Collective Behavior
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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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 88-2567Room: G 504
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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Research Scientist, Psychology, University of Konstanz
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Phone: +49 7531 88-2972Room: 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
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Philosophy, University of Konstanz
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Post office box: 21
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Research Associate, Neurobiology, University of Konstanz
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Phone: +49 7531 88 3052Room: M 1126
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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
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Professor, Psychology, University of Konstanz
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Room: ZfP, Haus 22
Post office box: 905
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by appointment
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Developmental Psychology
Dr. Katherine Snell
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Migration, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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Professor em., Philosophy, University of Konstanz
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Phone: +49 07531 88-2503Room: G 507
Post office box: 21
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Department for the Ecology of Animal Sciences, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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Professor, Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz
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Phone: +49 7531 88-4433Room: PZ 1003
Post office box: 67
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Group Leader, Biology, University of Konstanz
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Economics, University of Konstanz
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Phone: +49 7531 88-5122Room: F 314
Post office box: 131
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by appointment (via E-Mail)
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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