Monika Albers

Curriculum vitae

Education

2005 – current Diploma (MSc) in biology at Humboldt University Berlin with major in zoology, and genetics and biochemistry as minors
Thesis title: Migration and kinship in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)
Advisors: Prof. Andreas Elepfandt (Humboldt University Berlin) and Dr. Anja Widdig (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology)
2002 – 2005 Prediploma (undergraduate) in biology, Humboldt University Berlin
2001 German A-levels (“Abitur”)

Work experience

2009 Data collection for diploma thesis on kin selection and migration in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) at Cayo Santiago, Caribbean Primate Research Center (CPRC), Puerto Rico
2007 Student research project on humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) and ecotourism off the coast of Ecuador as part of the marine mammal ecology project, NAZCA Institute for Marine Research, Ecuador.
2006 Field research assistant for project on feeding ecology and metabolic physiology of nectar-feeding bats (Glossophoga commissarisi) at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica, for the Leibniz Institute for Zoo- and Wild Animal Research (IZW), Berlin