Research Groups

Minerva Fast Track Group "Facets of Early Social Learning"

Human-Animal Relations

This is a collaborative project with the Department of Human Biology and Primate Cognition and the Leipzig Lab at Leipzig University.

Pan Cultures

How do culture, social learning, and cooperation emerge beyond the human species? The Pan Cultures research group investigates the cultural lives of our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos of the genus Pan, to better understand the evolutionary foundations of human culture.

Crow Cognition (from fall 2026)

Adaptive Learning (from fall 2026)