Curriculum vitae

Present position

• since 1/2010 Full Professor for Behavioral Ecology at the University Leipzig

• since 1/2010 Bridging Professorship between University Leipzig (UL) and Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA)

• 6/2007-5/2012 Group leader of the Junior Research Group of Primate Kin Selection at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Primatology, Leipzig. This group is an Emmy Noether Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Postdoctoral projects

• 10/2006-5/2007 Guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Primatology, with a transition grant as an Emmy Noether Fellow of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
• 10/2004-9/2006 at the Caribbean Primate Research Center, University Puerto Rico
  Research Project: Mechanisms of paternal kin discrimination in primates
  Supervisor: Prof. Susan Alberts, Duke University Durham, NC, USA
• 4/2003-9/2004 at the Institute of Medical Genetics Humboldt University Berlin
  Research Project: Consequences of group fission for the patterns of relatedness
  Supervisor: Prof. Michael Krawczak, University Kiel, Germany
• 7/2002-3/2003 at the Institute of Medical Genetics, Humboldt University Berlin
  Research Project: Male reproductive skew in male rhesus macaques
  Supervisor: Prof. Peter Nürnberg, Humboldt University Berlin

Degrees of the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

• Ph.D. in Ethology 5/1997-7/2002
  Thesis: Paternal kinship among adult female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta )
  Supervisor: Prof. G ü nter Tembrock and Prof. Peter Nürnberg
• Diploma in Biology 10/1992-6/1996 (Major in Zoology, Minor in Ethology and Ecology)
  Thesis: Coalition formation among male Barbary macaques ( Macaca sylvanus)
  Supervisor: Prof. Gü nter Tembrock and Dr. Jü rgen W. Streich
• Undergraduate degree in Biology (Vordiplom) 10/1990-9/1992 (Exams: Zoology, Botany, Math, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Microbiology)

Degrees of the University of Edinburgh, UK

• Under-graduate Student 10/1993-9/1994 (Exams: Behavioural Ecology, Evolution and Ecology of Plants)

Referee to scientific journals or other institutions

• Proceeding of the Royal Society London
• American Journal of Primatology
• Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
• Behavioral Ecology
• Animal Behaviour
• Molecular Ecology
• Trends in Genetics
• Journal of Comparative Psychology
• Primates
• NSF
• Leakey Foundation
• German Research Foundation (DFG)
• European Research Council (ERC)

Editorial Board

• Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology since 2004
• ISRN Zoology since 2010
• PLoS ONE since 2012

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