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Understanding the swarm

Real animals in virtual swarms, drones in the savannah and a high-teck lab on Lake Constance: Researchers at the "Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" (CASCB) describe how they study animal swarms.

Gisela Kopp receives guest professorship

Gisela Kopp, Affiliate member of the CASCB and Research Fellow (Biology) at the Zukunftskolleg, has received a guest professorship at Dartmouth College in Hanover, Department of Anthropology, New Hampshire, USA.

Hector Research Career Development Award for Anna Stöckl

For the third time, the Hector Fellow Academy has presented the Hector Research Career Development (RCD) Award. On January 28, 2023, the jury of experts selected three young scientists whose research careers the Hector Fellow Academy now supports: Among them is neuroscientist Anna Stöckl from the CASCB and the University of Konstanz.

Why selfishness can lead to fairness

Physicists at the University of Konstanz's Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" confirm a 50-year-old hypothesis about why selfish behaviour leads to the formation of herds

CASCB Annual Report 2022 is out

Our review of what we have accomplished in the year 2022 in the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour is out.

Britta Renner wiedergewählt

Gesundheitspsychologin weitere drei Jahre stellvertretende Vorsitzende des Wissenschaftli-chen Beirats für Agrarpolitik, Ernährung und gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz – Teilnahmen am Global Forum for Food and Agriculture.

Clever birds need caring parents

A comparative study conducted at the University of Konstanz of over a thousand bird species comes to the conclusion: the key factor that matters for brain size is parental care.