Curriculum Vitae

Name	Hjalmar S. Kühl
Date of Birth	01.03.1973
Place of Birth	Bochum, Germany
Current Position	Senior scientist Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 04103 Leipzig, Germany

Recent and current activities

Project manager A.P.E.S. database Supervision of PhD students Ape/large mammal monitoring projects using camera traps and acoustic devices in Taï NP, Côte d’Ivoire, and Loango NP, Gabon Set up of ‘Pan African research and monitoring program’ to fill gaps in available ape population information Conducting or consulting on ape surveys in Moukalaba Doudou NP, Gabon; Nouabalé-Ndoki NP, Rep. Congo; Taï NP, Côte d’Ivoire; Loango NP, Gabon; Gola forest and nationwide, Sierra Leone; Sangaredi, Haut Niger, Guinea;  Gunung Leuser NP, Indonesia; Training and data analysis workshop in survey methodology in Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Sumatra.

Fields of expertise

Design of monitoring programs Development of survey methods, including acoustic and camera trapping methods Statistical analysis of survey data GIS and Remote sensing Statistical modeling Meta- and large scale data analysis Wildlife ecology Epidemiology and infectious disease dynamics

2008 – 2010	Postdoc in the Department of Primatology at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2003 – 2008	PhD student in the Department of Primatology at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2002 – 2003	Research assistant in the Department of Primatology at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2001 – 2002	Research assistant for habituation of chimpanzee group in the Taϊ Chimpanzee Project, Côte d’Ivoire
1994 – 2000	Study of biology at the universities of Freiburg and Konstanz, Germany
1992 – 1994	Civilian national service in ornithological station, Karlsruhe, Germany
1983 – 1992	High school, Karlsruhe, Germany