Johanna Eckert
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 406
email: johanna_eckert@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Thesis title: The evolutionary roots of intuitive statistics
Research Interests
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Presentations
Research Awards & Funding
Research Interests
- Animal cognition and behavior
- Comparative psychology
- Primates (great apes and monkeys)
- Early cognitive development
- Physical and social cognition
- Statistical reasoning, probabilities and quantities
- Zoo and Sanctuary
- Psychophysiological methods
Curriculum Vitae
Career & Education
| 11/2019 - present | Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig |
| 03/2019 - 11/2019 | Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles |
| 10/2018 - 03/2019 | Visiting Scholar Department of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology University of Würzburg |
10/2014 - 09/2018 | PhD Biology University of Göttingen; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Thesis: “The evolutionary roots of intuitive statistics” Advisors: Hannes Rakoczy, Josep Call |
| 10/2012 - 09/2014 | M.Sc. Biology University of Würzburg; German Primate Center, Göttingen Thesis: “Social comparison in long-tailed macaques” Advisors: Julia Fischer, Johannes Spaethe |
| 10/2009 - 09/2012 | B.Sc. Biology University of Würzburg Thesis: “Visual learning in stingless bees” Advisor: Johannes Spaethe |
Practical Experience
| 09/2019 - 10/2019 | Research stay at Kumamoto Sanctuary, WRC, Kyoto University, Japan |
| 01/2019 - 02/2019 03/2012 - 06/2012 | Research stays at Tropical Field Station La Gamba, Costa Rica |
| 01/2018 - 02/2018 04/2017 - 06/2017 10/2016 - 11/2016 | Research stays at Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Uganda |
| 08/2013 - 10/2013 | Research stay at African Elephant Sanctuary in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa (collaboration with University of Vienna) |
| 02/2013 - 04/2013 | Internship: “Cognitive Research with long-tailed macaques”, Cognitive Ethology Laboratory, German Primate Center in Göttingen |
Languages
- German (native)
- English (fluent)
- Spanish (basic)
Publications
Schmitt, V., Federspiel, I., Eckert, J., Keupp, S., Tschernek, L., Faraut, L., Schuster, R., Michels, C., Bugnyar, T., Mussweiler, T., & Fischer, J. (2015). Do monkeys compare themselves to others? Animal Cognition. doi: 10.1007/s10071-015-0943-4
Spaethe, J., Streinzer, M., Eckert, J., May, S., & Dyer, A. (2014). Behavioural evidence of colour vision in free flying stingless bees. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 200(6), 485-496. doi: 10.1007/s00359-014-0886-2
Research Awards & Funding
10/2019: Outstanding dissertation award of the Universitätsbund Göttingen e.V.
01/2019: Ulrike Goldschmid-Grant for research work at the tropical field station La Gamba, Costa Rica
10/2016: Outgoing-Grant of Leibniz-ScienceCampus Primate Cognition
07/2016: Abstract award of the Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution
03/2012: DAAD promos scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service)
