Christof Neumann

Curriculum vitae

Education

2009 – current: Ph. D. student at the Leipzig University in collaboration with the German Primate Centre in Göttingen, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (MPI – EVA).
2006 – 2007: Master Thesis: Loud calls in male Sulawesi crested black macaques (Macaca nigra): Differences in acoustic structure and responses of group mates at the German Primate Centre, Göttingen and Leipzig University (Supervisors: Julia Fischer & Klaus Schildberger)
2002 – 2007: Study of Biology (Zoology, Behavioral Biology, Neurobiology, & Psychology) at Leipzig University
2001 – 2002: Study of Chemistry at Leipzig University

Work experience

2008: Research assistant at the German Primate Centre, Department of Reproductive Biology: Sexual signals in male Macaca nigra, (Supervisors: Antje Engelhardt and Keith Hodges)
2007: Student research assistant in the Department of Primatology at the MPI – EVA: Development of a comparative database for primate life-history data, Supervisor: Charles Nunn
2006 – 2007: Field work in Tangkoko–Batuangus Nature Reserve, North Sulawesi, Indonesia for master thesis, Supervisor: Antje Engelhardt
2006: Student research assistant at the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the MPI – EVA in Leipzig (9 months): Differences between rats selected for tameness and for defensive aggression towards humans, Supervisor: Frank Albert
2005 – 2006: Internship at the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the MPI – EVA (6 months): Fourteen-month-olds know what “we” have shared in a special way, Supervisor: Henrike Moll
2005 – 2006: Student teaching assistant in an undergraduate course on general animal anatomy at the Institute for Biology II at Leipzig University (6 months), Supervisor: Roswitha Kretzschmar
2004 – 2005. Field work for the Department of Primatology at the MPI – EVA in Khao Yai National Park / Thailand (6 months): Sexual behaviour in wild white-handed gibbon females, Supervisors: Claudia Barelli and Ulrich Reichard

Grants and Awards

2011: Folia Primatologica Young Scientist Awards (2nd price) for oral presentations at the 4^th Congress of the European Federation of Primatologists in Almada

2009: PhD stipend (“Landesgraduiertenstipendium”) granted by the Freistaat Sachsen
2009: Folia Primatologica Young Scientist Awards (2nd price) for oral presentations at the 3rd Congress of the European Federation of Primatologists in Zurich
2009: Travel grant to attend the 3rd Congress of the European Federation of Primatologists in Zurich