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Curriculum Vitae

 
     
 

Education

 
     
 
Vordiplom Biology, University of Düsseldorf 1992
Dipl. Biol., Inst. Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen 1997
Dr. rer. nat., Dept. Behavior and Ecology, German Primate Center Göttingen and Dept. Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, 2003
 
 
 
 
 
 

Appointments

 
     
 
Since 2005 Scientist, Integrative Primate Socio-Ecology Group, MPI EVA, Leipzig, Germany
2004-2006 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, USA
2003 Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, USA
2003-2005 Feodor-Lynen Research Fellow Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn
2003 Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Göttingen
2001 Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Göttingen
1998-2001 Junior Researcher, Department Behavior/Ecology, German Primate Center, Göttingen
1994 Teaching/Research Assistant, Department of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen
 
 
 
 
 
 

Research Interests

 
     
 
  • Evolution of social organization, social structure and mating systems
  • Resource exploitation and feeding competition
  • Sexual conflict
  • Nocturnal primates
  • Lemurs
  • Asian Colobines
  • Macaques
 
 
 
 
 
 

Cooperation

 
     
 
  • Naris Bhumphakphan, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Warren Brockelman, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Wicharn Eiadthong, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Thilo Gross, Princeton University, USA
  • Michael Heistermann, DPZ Göttingen, Germany
  • Howletts Wild Animal Park
  • Andreas Koenig and Carola Borries, Stony Brook University, USA
  • Charles Nunn, Department of Primatology, MPI EvA, Leipzig
  • Suchinda Malaivijitnond, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
  • Roger Mundry, Depts. of Primatology and Psychology, MPI EvA, Leipzig
  • Christian Roos, DPZ Göttingen, Germany
  • Linda Vigilant, MPI EVA Leipzig, Germany
  • G Koch, University of Leipzig, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching

 
     
 

I taught courses on Sexual Selection in Humans and other Primates and Primate Socioecology on the undergraduate and the graduate level at the Universities of Göttingen and Stony Brook, USA.

I am currently involved in teaching i) introductory classes for the Max-Planck graduate program Leipzig School of Human Origins and ii) comparative animal morphology and anatomy at the University of Leipzig.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Services

Conferences

Organizer (with J Ostner) of the 10. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Primatologie in Leipzig, December 7-8 2006, 152 participants

 
     
 
Board Member
  German Primatological Society
Ad hoc Journal Reviewer
  Acta Ethologica
  American Journal of Physical Anthropology
  American Journal of Primatology
  Behavioral Ecology
  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  Biology Letters
  Evolutionary Anthropology
  International Journal of Primatology
  Journal of Mammalogy
  Naturwissenschaften
  Oecologia
Grant Reviewer
  National Geographic Society
  Primate Conservation Inc.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Professional Societies

 
     
 
  • Gesellschaft für Primatologie GfP (Board Member)
  • International Primatological Society IPS
  • International Society for Behavioral Ecology ISBE
  • Ethologische Gesellschaft