Daniel Haun
Director
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany
Research Interests
- Cross-cultural variation in early socio-cognitive development
- Great ape cognition
- Population-level variation in great ape sociality
- Social motivation
- Spatial cognition
Curriculum Vitae
Current Positions
| 2019 - present | Director Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| 2019 - present | Professor Comparative Cultural Psychology Leipzig University |
Career
| 2019 - present | Director Comparative Cultural Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig |
| 2019 - present | Professor Comparative Cultural Psychology Leipzig University |
| 2015 – 2019 | Professor Early Child Development and Culture Leipzig University |
| 2014 - 2015 | Professor Developmental Psychology University of Jena |
| 2013 - 2016 | Guest Scientist Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig |
| 2008 - 2013 | Research Group leader Comparative Cognitive Anthropology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & MPI for Psycholinguistics |
| 2008 - 2014 | Honorary Lecturer Developmental Psychology University of Portsmouth |
| 2007 - 2008 | Lecturer |
| 2006 - 2007 | Post Doc Comparative and Developmental Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| 2003 - 2004 | Marie Curie PhD Stipend Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience University College London |
| 2002 - 2006 | PhD student |
| 2001 - 2002 | Research Assistant Developmental Psychology University of South Carolina |
| 2001 - 2002 | Academic Tutor for gifted Students Social & Natural Sciences University of South Carolina |
| Summer 2001 | Research Assistant Virtual Reality Laboratory University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Spring 1999 | Research Intern Language and Cognition Group Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics |
| 1998 - 2000 | Student Assistant General Psychology University of Trier |
Education
| 2002 - 2007 | PhD, Psychology MPI Psycholinguistics & Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging Supervisor: Prof. Stephen C. Levinson, Prof. Neil Burgess, Prof. Gabriele Janzen |
| 2001 - 2002 | M.A., Psychology University of South Carolina Supervisor: Prof. Gary L. Allen |
| 1997 - 2000 | Vordiplom (B.A.), Psychology Universität Trier |
| 1988 - 1997 | Abitur Burggymnasium Kaiserslautern |
Field Research
| 2005, 2006, 2008-2011, 2013-2017 | ≠Akhoe Hai//om; Namibia |
| 2007-2010, 2012 | Orangutan Care Centre and Quarantine; Indonesia |
| 2011, 2012, 2015-2017, 2019 | Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage, Zambia |
Publications
