CASCB Doctoral Students
Johann Bornholdt
Doctoral Student, Computer and Information Science, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: PZ 806
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Doctoral Student, Biology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: ZT 903
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I am working on markerless 3D posture tracking using computer vision to study the fine scaled behaviours and visual attention of birds.
Mathilde Delacoux
Doctoral Student, Biology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: ZT 903
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I am very interested in animal behaviour and cognition, and specifically how these traits vary between individuals. Here at the Cluster, I am using high-tech motion capture to understand how they influence the collective behaviour of pigeons.
Bernadette Denk
Doctoral Student, Psychology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Phone: +49 7531 88-4889Room: Zentrum für Psychiatrie Reichenau (ZfP) House 22, room 031
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Doctoral Student, Empirical Educational Research, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
Stefan Feyer
Doctoral Student, Computer and Information Science, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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I am working on developing tools for analyzing spatial data of animals in Virtual Reality.
Daniel Fink
Doctoral Student, Computer and Information Science, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Phone: +49 7531 88-3748Room: PZ 905
Post office box: 73
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Karl-Philipp Flösch
Doctoral Student, Psychology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Phone: +49 7531 88 5104Room: C540
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Doctoral Student, Biology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: ZT 921
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Doctoral Student, Computer and Information Science, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: ZT 1103
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Doctoral Student, Physics, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Phone: +49 7531 88-4941Room: P1020
Post office box: 688
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I am doing experiments in which active colloids have to solve collective tasks with the help of Reinforcement Learning.
Frida Hildebrandt
Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: M11-15a
Post office box: 623
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I investigate the propagation of social information in honeybees and locusts.
Dennis Horvath
Doctoral Student, Biology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Phone: +49 7531 88-3638Room: P1106
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Julia Klein
Doctoral Student, PhD Representative, Computer and Information Science, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: ZT 906
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I combine formal methods with machine learning to model and analyse complex biological systems.
Georgios Kolyfetis
Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: M1120a
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Doctoral Student, Computer and Information Science, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Research project in Division of Labor in Robot Swarms with Minimize Surprise, where we use methods of active inference to provoke collective robot behaviours, here with focus on division of labor and task allocation in mobile multi-robot systems
Ashrit Mangalwedhekar
Doctroral Student, Neurobiology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: ZT 925
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Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: ZT 925
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Doctroral Student, Neurobiology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: ZT 925
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Doctoral Student, Biology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: Zt 906
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Doctoral Student, Computer and Information Science, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Doctoral Student, Computer and Information Science, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: PZ812
Post office box: 229
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Jana Straßheim
Doctoral Student, Psychology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Phone: +49 (0) 7531 88 5321Room: G523
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Doctoral Student, Computer and Information Science, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: Z723
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I am interested in real-time multi-animal pose estimation and tracking in the wild. Since it is labour intensive and not trivial to obtain annotated animal data, I investigate in unsupervised methods that do not require annotated data. I also investigate in a domain shift from synthetic to real. More precisely, I am interested in models that can be trained on synthetic data and transferred to real-world applications.
Ruiheng Wu
Doctoral Student, Computer and Information Science, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: 907
Post office box: 687
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Developing the next generation virtual reality system for fish behavioural study. Exploring the combination of animal behaviour and robotics.
Jingyu Xi
Doctoral Student, Psychology, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
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Room: ZT 903
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Alisa Auer
Doctoral Student, Psychology, University of Konstanz
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Room: D 516
Post office box: 42
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Doctoral Student, Biology, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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Doctoral Student, Educational Science, University of Konstanz
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Phone: +49 7531 88-2117Room: GF 206
Post office box: 45
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Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, University of Konstanz
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Room: Z 927
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I investigate spatial processing from the natural visual inputs to the behavioral outputs, including the neural processing and its underlying anatomical structure. Ultimately, I combine a wide range of methods to gain a holistic understanding of how spatial processing in the insect visual system helps to extract visual information out of a complex visual world.
Maxim Capelle
Doctoral Student, PhD Representative, Neurobiology, University of Konstanz
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Phone: +49 7531 88-35885801Room: Z T902
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I study the neuronal implementation of decision-making and evidence accumulation using larval zebrafish. More specifically, I focus on the change of brightness preferences (phototaxis) of the larvae over time.
György Fejer
Doctoral Student, Psychology, University of Konstanz
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Room: E 504
Eleonora Gatti
Doctoral Student, Biology, University of Konstanz
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Room: Z 806
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Doctoral Student, Psychology, University of Konstanz
Zoë Goldsborough
Doctoral Student, Biology, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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Room: Bücklestr. 5.19a
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Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, University of Konstanz
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Phone: 07531-884891Room: Z 927
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I am curious about how insects perceive their environment and want to understand the neural mechanisms underlying the processing of sensory information. In my PhD I study how the visual system of nocturnal hawkmoths processes highly dynamic visual inputs based on natural sceneries, and how behavioural strategies might optimise sensory acquisition.
Selina Graulich
Doctoral Student, Politics, University of Konstanz
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Room: D 318
Emily Grout
Doctoral Student, Biology, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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Room: Bücklestraße 5, room 5.29
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Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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Phone: +49 7531 88-2100Room: Zt 902
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I am interested in the neuroethology of locust swarming and decision-making. For this, I combine eye-opening field observations, controlled lab experiments, and fine-scale recordings from descending neurons in behaving animals.
Conor Heins
Doctoral Student, Biology, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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I am a doctoral student advised by Iain Couzin at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and CASCB (co-advised by Karl Friston at University College London). In my doctoral research, I am using the framework of predictive processing, a.k.a. “prediction error minimization” to model collective motion and information processing in animal groups. This work involves primarily numerical simulations and formal analysis.
Sydney Hunt
Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, University of Konstanz
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Room: M 1125
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Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, University of Konstanz
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Room: M 1108
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Doctoral Student, Computer Science, University of Konstanz
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Room: Z807
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Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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Doctoral Student, Psychology, University of Konstanz
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Phone: +49 7531 88 3182Room: G 522
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Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, University of Konstanz
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Room: Zt 901
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My research aims to understand the neural mechanism of social behaviour. What makes animals social and how chronic social isolation affects them?
Saverio Lubrano
Doctoral Student, Biology, University of Konstanz
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Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, University of Konstanz
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Room: Z 927
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I am fascinated by the range of animal perceptions and their interplay with innate preferences and learning. For my PhD, I will investigate pattern vision in insect pollinators to explore the relevance of floral cues in shaping experience-driven foraging behaviour.
Andrea Meltzer
Doctoral Student, Biology, University of Konstanz
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Room: ZT 1023
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I am currently researching on the evolution of social behavior among unrelated individuals, investigating a group-living bird species (Siberian jay) in Northern Sweden. Previous research experience I gained in studying collective behavior of bumblebees, as well as population dynamics of Arctic breeding birds.
Dennis Mink
Doctoral Student, Biology, University of Konstanz
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Phone: +49 7531 88-4446Room: P1108
Post office box: 661
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Doctoral Student, Ecology of Animal Societies, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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Doctoral Student, Biology, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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Room: ZT 10
Hari Pradeep Narayanan
Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, University of Konstanz
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Room: ZT 925
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Doctoral Student, Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Konstanz
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I am investigating the effect of equine-assisted therapy on acute and chronic stress and the physiological synchrony between humans and horses.
Kritika Saxena
Doctoral Student, Biology, University of Konstanz
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Phone: +49 7531 88-3117Room: P1117
Post office box: 661
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Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, University of Konstanz
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Phone: +49 7531 88-2240Room: ZT 902 & M 1120a
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How does the brain integrate different, often conflicting, sources of information to form a decision? Using the small and transparent larval zebrafish, I study the neural circuits involved in decision-making.
Regina Stumpf
Doctoral Student, Economics, University of Konstanz
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Room: F312
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Doctoral Student, Biology, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
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Doctoral Student, Philosophy of Science, University of Konstanz
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Room: G 601
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Doctoral Student, Neurobiology, University of Konstanz
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Phone: +49 7531 88-4891Room: Z927
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I combine computer vision tools with behavioural and neural data to try and understand the algorithmic basis of pattern recognition in the hummingbird hawkmoth (Macroglossum stellatarum).
Lisa-Marie Walther
Doctoral Student, Psychology, University of Konstanz
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Phone: +49 7531 88-5035Room: D 516
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My research focuses on stress contagion in humans. To better understand this phenomenon, we first conducted a laboratory study with the assessment of different physiological stress markers. In the meantime, we are investigating stress contagion "in the wild" and have recently conducted a study with music orchestras.
Stella Wienhold
Doctoral Student, Psychology, University of Konstanz
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Room: ZfP Haus 35, Raum 203
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