
Grants and Awards
Grants 2023
- Yitzchak Ben-Mocha: Young Scholar Fund; €5.000
- Andrea Flack: German Research Foundation grant, “Landfill foraging in migratory birds: pain or gain”; €199.287
- Andrea Gonsek: Hector Fellow Academy Young Researcher, “Dynamic Vision in Natural Low Light Environments From Single Photons to Behaviour”, three years
- Jeanine Grütter: LEAP Fellowship; MIT Solve, 2 years
- SFB-TRR 161 Team: Oliver Deussen, Tiare Feuchtner, Daniel Keim, Harald Reiterer, Falk Schreiber, Sabine Storandt: German Research Foundation grant, “Quantitative Methods for Visual Computing”; €298.900;
- Daniel Keim: DAAD Research Grant, €13.504, 6 months
- Gisela Kopp: Young Scholar Fund; €13575; Workshop Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation, “Animating ancient trade routes through primate lifeways”; $19,907
- Daniela Perez: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, two years
- Britta Renner: Baden-Württemberg-Institut für Nachhaltige Mobilität (BWIM), “How we move why we move”; €207.000, one year
- Anna Stöckl: European Research Council Starting Grant 2022; "Closing the loop in dynamic vision – from single photons to behaviour in extreme light environments", €1.5 m
- Wataru Toyokawa: William K. and Katherine W. Estes Fund, Association for Psychological Science and the Psychonomic Society; “Computational Summer School on Modelling Social and Collective Behaviour (COSMOS) Konstanz 2023”
- NeuroDoWo Team: Max Capelle, Katja Slangewal, Ronja Bigge, Andrea Gonsek, Kavitha Kannan, Yannick Günzel: Funds for Scientific Meetings, Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung; €2.262; Doctoral Fund, University of Konstanz; €2.910
- Lochlan Walsh: Hector Fellow Academy Young Researcher, “The Algorithmic Basis of Pattern Recognition in an Insect Pollinator”, three years
Awards 2023
- Thejasvi Beleyur: Best Talk in the 'Early career' category at the International Bioacoustics Society conference
- Ronja Bigge: First poster prize at the International Conference of Invertebrate Vision, presented by the Journal of Experimental Biology and Heiligenberg Student Travel Award by the International Society for Neuroethology
- Iain Couzin: The Rothschild Distinguished Fellowship, Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, 2023 Nobel Symposium Speaker, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
- Yannick Günzel: Breaking News‘ Best Paper Award 2023; 15th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society
- Frida Hildebrandt: Best Poster Award at the European Student Conference on Behavior & Cognition
- Fumihiro Kano: Manfred Fuchs Prize, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities of the State Baden-Württemberg
- Gisela Kopp: Guest Professorship, Dartmouth College, Hanover, US, Harris Distinguished Visiting Professorship Program, for the spring semester 2024; Chair of Die Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Liang Li: Werner and Erika Messmer Foundation research award; Board director of the education committee of the International Society of Bionic Engineering
- Britta Renner: Member of the Deutsche Komitee für Nachhaltigkeitsforschung, German Research Foundation; Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the "Bürgerrat Ernährung" of the German Bundestag; Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Agora Agrar
- Anna Stöckl: Hector Research Career Development Award
- Wataru Toyokawa: British Academy Visiting Fellowship, University of Exeter, three months
- Nikolaus Troje: Humboldt Research Award, Humboldt Research Foundation, three months
Grants 2022
- Armin Bahl: European Research Council Starting Grant 2022; “Neural basis of zebrafish collective decision-making”, €1.5 m
- Armin Bahl, Florian Engert, Jeff Lichtman, and Marc Fishman (Harvard University): NIH U19 Collaboration Grant; “The heart and the mind: an integrative approach to brain-body interactions in the zebrafish”, $288,750
- Armin Bahl and Robert Hindges (King’s College London): Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council International Partnerships grant; “A close-loop visual stimulation system to study neural circuits underlying animal behaviour”, £44,448.46
- Thejasvi Beleyur: Walter Benjamin Programme, German Research Foundation
- Blair Costelloe, Andrea Flack, and Martin Wikelski: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network grant: “WildDrone, Autonomous Drones for Nature Conservation Missions”
- Meg Crofoot: ERC Consolidator Grant: “CO-SLEEP: The Collective Dynamics of Sleep”, €2.9 m
- Iain Couzin and Serena Ding: EIC Horizon 2020: “BABOTS: The design and control of small swarming biological animal robots”
- George Fejer: ELES Doctoral Scholarship Fund
- Urs Fischbacher: Allais Memorial Prize in Behavioural Sciences
- Jeanine Grütter: Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship, 3 years
- Daniel Keim and AG Data Analysis and Visualization: Grant from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Research for Civil Security: “ Verbundprojekt: Vertrauenswürdige Künstliche Intelligenz für polizeiliche Anwendungen (VIKING)”; Subproject "Visual Analytics für vertrauenswürdige und erklärbare Künstliche Intelligenz", 3 years, €492,786
- Daniel Keim and AG Data Analysis and Visualization: Committee on Research (AFF), University of Konstanz; Funding lines in the framework of the Excellence Strategy: “ProPell Promoting Exercise in Lab and Life”; 2.8 years, € 27,270.60
- Daniel Keim and AG Data Analysis and Visualization: Grant from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action: “Re-SUME - Multikriterielle Optimierung: Auswirkungen von Recyclingpotentialen, kritischen Rohstoffen und Lieferkettenrisiken auf die Energiewende”, Subprojekt "Visuelle Analytik für verbesserte Entscheidungsfindung"; 3 years; €325,450
- Daniel Keim and AG Data Analysis and Visualization: Project grant from the Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Integration of the State of Baden-Württemberg: “KTBW Verwendung von digitalen Fernüberwachungs- und Behandlungslösungen als wichtiger Baustein bei der Bekämpfung der COVID-19-Pandemie in Baden-Württemberg”, 10 months, €162,500
- Mark van Kleunen: German Research Foundation grant; “Globale Pflanzeninvasionen: von Grundlagendaten, zu Ursachen und Biodiversitätsänderungen”, 3 years
- Liang Li: Mobility Grant, Sino-German Centre for Research Promotion: “The emergence of cooperation in schooling fish: an evolutionary game theory perspective”
- Diego Morales: Herz Fellowship, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz
- Hemal Naik: Residency at Schloss Solitude; Project at the art/science interface related to the CASCB/MPI-AB Blackbuck project
- Harald Reiterer and Falk Schreiber: Gold at the CommAwards; Golden ADC Nail; Red Dot at the Red Dot Design Award for the exhibition “Stayin’ Alive”
- Zoe Ringleb: Ann Kern-Godal’s mermorial fund: "Systematic Investigation into Stress Reducing Effects of Horse-Assisted Therapy in Acute and Chronic Stress Measured by Heart Rate Variability and Cortisol"
- Katja Slangewal: Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship
- Anna Stöckl: Research Fellowship, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, 5 years; Emmy Noether grant: "The neural basis of insect pattern vision"
- Wataru Toyokawa: William K. and Katherine W. Estes Fund, Association for Psychological Science and the Psychonomic Society; “Computational Summer School on Modelling Social and Collective Behaviour (COSMOS) Konstanz 2022”
- Katrin Vogt: Subproject leader, German Research Foundation Research Unit; “Modulation in Olfaction: How Recurrent Circuits Govern State-Dependent Behaviour”
- Sonja Wild: Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation; “The impact of human disturbance on animal culture”, 2 years
- Hannah Williams: Freigeist Fellowship, Volkswagen Foundation: “Optimal Movement Theory: Perception of energies to "up-the-odds" for efficient movement”, approx. €1.6 m
- Yuqi Zou: Herz Fellowship, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz
Awards 2022
- Iain Couzin: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize; Falling Walls Global Call Winner; Highly Cited Researcher
- Zoë Goldsborough: 3rd prize for Best Student Talk at the joint EFP-GfP 2022 Conference, Arnhem: Presentation “Tool Use and Tidal Cycles: Activity Patterns in Island-living White-faced Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus capucinus imitator)”
- Yannick Günzel: Neurobiology Doctoral Students Workshop’s Best Talk Award: Presentation “Hopper by name, hopper by nature. The state-dependent startle response of the desert locust”
- Daniel Keim: Security Innovation Awards, Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs
- Gisela Kopp: Board of Die Junge Akademie; Member of the Ukraine Support Team of the University of Konstanz who received the University Council Award 2022
- Britta Renner: Vice-President of the German Nutrition Society, vice chairwoman of the Wissenschaftlichen Beirat für Agrarpolitik, Ernährung und gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz (WBAE) of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
- Katja Slangewal: Neurobiology Doctoral Students Workshop’s Best Poster Award
Grants 2021
- Lucy Aplin: European Research Council Grant (SERI funded) Starting Grant 2021; “CULTURES ADAPT - Animal culture under change: a landscape-level analysis of socio-cognitive responses to human impact”, € 1,5 mil
- Clemens Bechinger: German Research Foundation Grant; “Fluctuations and Nonlinearities in Classical and Quantum Matter beyond Equilibrium”, 4 years
- Aneesh Bose: Independent Research Grant from Zukunftskolleg
- Hanja Brandl: Independent Research Grant from Zukunftskolleg
- Einat Couzin-Fuchs: German Research Foundation Individual Research Grant; “Odor coding and decision making”, 3 years
- Andrea Flack: Emmy Noether Research Program of the German Research Foundation
- Urs Kalbitzer: Elite Programme for Postdocs of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
- Daniel Keim: DFG Schwerpunktprogramm „RATIO“ Grant; “CUEPAQ Visual Analytics and Linguistik für Erfassen, Verständnis und Erklärung personalisierter Argumentqualität“, 3 years
- Daniel Keim: BMBF grant; “AIDA TI UKON”, 2 years
- Katrin Vogt: Independent Research Grant from Zukunftskolleg
- Anja Weidenmüller: Bees & Trees Foundation
Awards 2021
- Michael Chimento: Best Paper Award from the IMPRS for Organismal Biology for the publication: Chimento M, Alarcón-Nieto G, Aplin LM. Population turnover facilitates cultural selection for efficiency in birds. Current Biology. 2021 Jun 7; 31(11):2477-83.
- Iain Couzin: Gottfried Wilhelmm Leibniz Prize 2022; Global Highly Cited Researcher 2021
- Oliver Deussen: Fellow of the German Informatics Society
- Barbara Fruth: Awards from Centre for Research and Conservation BE, Bonobo Alive e.V., Deutsches Primatzentrum (DPZ)
- Harald Reiterer: Lehrpreis des Landes Baden-Württemberg
- Eli Strauss: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow
- Falk Schreiber: Lehrpreis des Landes Baden-Württemberg
- Martin Wikelski: Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg, Award from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Grants 2020
- Lucy Aplin: Israeli Science Foundation: “From conformity to diversity”, 5 years
- Armin Bahl: Emmy Noether Junior Research Group: "Neural basis of perceptual decision-making in larval zebrafish", 6 years
- Armin Bahl: Zukunftskolleg Research Fellow, 5 years
- Clemens Bechinger: European Union ITN Network Active Matter grant, 2 years
- Iain Couzin: ERC Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Innovative Training Networks (ITN) grant; “Advanced Simulation, Analysis and Interpretation of Network Structures in Biological Data ‘SmartNets’”, 4 years
- Damien Farine: ERC Starting Grant; “The ecology of collective behaviour”, 4 years
- Damien Farine: SNSF Eccellenza Professorship; “The building blocks of animal societies”, 4 years
- Alex Jordan: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science grant; “Studies on the evolution of mating systems and parental care patterns of the cichlid fishes in the ancient African lake: ecological, cognitive and neurophysiological approaches”, 4 years
- Alex Jordan: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia grant; “Genetic toolkits and the molecular evolution of social behaviour: teleost fish as a comparative study model”, 4 years
- Alex Jordan: National Science Foundation grant; “Characterization and dissection of DNA methylation and animal color changes in an African cichlid”, 3 years
- Britta Renner: German Research Foundation grant; “Sustainable Food Systems”, 4 years
Awards 2020
- Giovanni Galizia: Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (2019-2020)
- Iain Couzin: Global Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science Group
- Damien Farine: Global Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science Group
- Aneesh Bose: International Society for Behavioural Ecology Pitelka Award
- Giovanni Galizia: Henriette Herz-Preis
- Martin Imhof: Science Award of the Werner und Erika Messmer Foundation
- Gisela Kopp: Die Junge Akademie Fellow
- Martin Wikelski, ICARUS Project: “Brücken für die deutsch-russische Hochschul- und Wissenschaftszusammenarbeit”
Grants 2019
- Clemens Bechinger: ERC Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Innovative Training Networks (ITN) grant; “Active Matter: From Fundamental Science to Technological Applications”, 4 years
- Iain Couzin: Office of Naval Research grant; “Individual Differences and Bio-Inspired Design of Vehicle Group Dynamics”, 5 years
- Iain Couzin: Marie-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange grant; “iNavigate”, 4 years
- Meg Crofoot: Alexander von Humboldt Professor, 4 years
- Dina Dechmann: Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant; “Regrowing the brain: evolution and mechanisms of seasonal reversible size changes in a mammal”, 3 years
- Oliver Deussen: Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB-TRR 161 “Quantitative Methods for Visual Computing” funding renewal, 4 years
- Helge Giese and Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin: University of Konstanz Zukunftskolleg Interdisciplinary Collaborative Project grant; “The communication network in collective decision-making: How does group structure affect decision dynamics and outcomes?”
- Helge Giese and Wolfgang Gaissmaier: German Research Foundation Project grant; “Contagious Risk Perception: The Social Dynamics of Risk Perception, Communication, and Behavior”, 3 years
- Alex Jordan: Human Frontier Science Program Young Investigator Grant; “The dynamics of information flow in a social network of mutually shading plants”, 3 years
- Daniel Keim: German Research Foundation grant; “Uncertainty and Trust-Aware Integration of VGI and Spatio-Temporal Traces for Understanding Animal Behavior”, 3 years
- Daniel Keim: EU Horizon 2020 grant; “Sustainable Data Lakes for Extreme-Scale Analytics”, 3 years
- Morgane Nouvian: Zukunftskolleg Research Fellow, 5 years, DFG grant "Individual brains, collective task: social regulation of stinging behaviour in honeybees", 3 Years + 2 years cost-neutral extension
- Falk Schreiber and Martin Wiekski: Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts (MWK) of Baden-Württemberg grant; “Movebank 2.0”
- Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin: Zukunftskolleg Research Fellow, 5 years
- Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin: Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant; “Communication and the coordination of collective behavior across spatial scales in animal societies”, 3 years
- Stephan Streuber: Zukunftskolleg Research Fellow, 5 years
- Stefan Volkwein: German Research Foundation grant; “Multiobjective Optimization of Non-Smooth PDEs – Switches, State Constraints, Model Reduction”, 3 years
Awards 2019
- Lucy Aplin: National Geographic Explorer
- Iain Couzin: Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize; Global Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science Group
- Damien Farine: Global Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science Group
- Andrea Flack: Minerva Stiftung James Heineman Research Award
- Britta Renner: Elected Vice President of German Nutrition Society; Vice-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board on Agricultural Policy at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Germany