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Wittig & Crockford Lab
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winter 2018 / 2019
Members of the Wittig & Crockford Lab winter 2018/2019 Last row (from left to right): Cedric Girard-Buttoz, Catherine Crockford, Roman Wittig, Alexander Mielke, Prince Vale, Janette Gleiche. Middle row (from left to right): Sylvain Lemoine, Liran Samuni, Anna Preis, Kayla Kolff, Frauke Olthoff. Front row (from left to right): Patrick Tkaczynski, Erin Wessling, Virgile Manin.
In the field: Tatiana Bortolato, Mathilde Grampp, Mathieu Malherbe, Penelope Carlier
(missing: Clement Gba, Doris Wu, Ruth Sonnweber)
summer 2017
Members of the Wittig & Crockford Lab summer 2017 (starting from left): Janette Gleiche, Frauke Olthoff, Ramona Beuth, Clement Gba, Alexander Mielke, Roman Wittig, Catherine Crockford, Cedric Girard-Buttoz, Doris Wu, Isaac Schamberg (guest), Sylvain Lemoine.
In the field: Pawel Fedurek, Virgile Manin, Kamilla Pleh, Patrick Tkaczynski, Prince Vale
(missing: Therese Löhrich, Anna Preis, Liran Samuni, Ruth Sonnweber)
summer 2016
Members of the Wittig & Crockford Lab summer 2016 (starting from left): Veronika Beeck, Anna Preis, Pawel Fedurek, Patrick Tkaczynski, Catherine Crockford, Roman Wittig, Cedric Girrard-Buttoz, Liran Samuni.
In the field: Alexander Mielke, Therese Löhrrich, Sylvain Lemoine, Clement Gba, Ruth Sonnweber, Doris Wu.
Principle Investigators
Dr. Catherine Crockford
Co-Director Taï Chimpanzee Project
PI Ape Attachment Project (ERC financed)
PI Evolution of Brain Connectivity (MPS funded)
Co-PI SoHaPi (DFG funded)
Dr. Roman Wittig
Director of Taï Chimpanzee Project
PI Sociality and Health in Primates (funded by DFG)
PI Evolution of Brain Connecitivity (funded by MPS)
Co-PI Ape Attachment (funded by ERC)
Post-doc staff
Aisha Bründl, PhD
Post-doc Evolution of Brain Connectivity
Assessing social cognition and communication development and capacities in wild chimpanzees
Dr. Cedric Girard-Buttoz
Post-doc Pan-Pan Comparison
Assessing cognitve and social differences between Taï Chimapnzees and LuiKotale bonbos
Post-doc Ape Attachment
Dr. Kathrin Kopp
Post-doc Evolution of Brain Connectivity
Assessing cognitive and social plasticity in chimpanzees and bonobos across European Zoos
Dr. Ruth Sonnweber
Post-doc Ape Attachment
The influence of social cognition variation on social bonding capacities in chimpanzees
Patrick Tkaczynski, PhD
Post-doc Ape Attachment
The influence of hormonal variation on social bonding capacities in chimpanzees
PhD Students
Tatiana Bortolato
PhD project: Communicative development of wild chimpanzees
Clement Gba
PhD project: Food competition and sociality in mangabeys
at Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Sylvain Lemoine
PhD project: Intergroup relationships between four neighbouring chimpanzee communities
Mathieu Malbehre
PhD project: Behaviuoral varaition and culture in 4 neighbouring communities of chimpanzees
Virgile Manin
PhD project: Link among sociality, oxytocin, glucocorticoids and health in wild chimpanzees
Kamilla Pleh
PhD project: Localizing an infective source in the Taï National Park
Prince Vale
PhD project: Energy balance in wild chimpanzees
at Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Technical Staff
MPI EVA, Leipzig
- Tina Knittel (TCP Behavioural Data Entry)
- Amelie Pettrich (Urine and Feacal Samples Data Bank)
TCP, Ivory Coast
- Mathieu Malherbe (Project Manager TCP)
- Jenny Jaffe (Project Vet TCP)
- Frauke Olthoff (Research Assistant TCP, Longterm data)
- Morgen Rohee (Research Assistant TCP, Longterm data)
Research Staff TCP, Ivory Coast
- Mathilde Grampp (Social cognition in chimpanzees and mangabeys)
- Christelle Nihouarn (Development of social play in chimpanzees)
Associated Researchers & Students
- Dr. Tobias Deschner (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)
- Dr. Fabian Leendertz (Robert Koch Instute, Berlin, Germany)
- Dr. Lydia Luncz (School of Anthropology, Oxford University, UK)
- Dr. Viccy Oelze (Anthropology Department, University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
- Dr. Liran Samuni (Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)
- Dr. Linda Vigilant (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)
Scientific Alumni
2011 - 2015 Dr. Helen DeNys (University of Gent, Belgium)
2013 - 2015 Dr. Martin Surbeck (Deaprtment of Primatology, MPI EVA, Leipzig, GER)
2012 - 2016 Jan Gogarten, PhD (Center of Infection and Immunity, Columbia University, New York, USA)
2012 - 2016 Dr. Marleen Fröhlich (Department of Anthropology, University of Zürich, Zürich, CH)
2013 - 2016 Dr. Robert Power (Department for Prehistory, LMU Munich, Munich, GER)
2013 - 2018 Dr. Theresa Löhrich (WWF, Central African Republic)
2016 - 2018 Dr. Pawel Fedurek (Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK)
2017 - 2018 MSc Ramona Beuth (University Of Leipzig, GER)
2012 - 2019 Dr. Anna Preis (Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, Moyen-Bafin National Park, Guinee)
2012 - 2019 Dr. Alexander Mielke (Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK)
2013 - 2019 Dr. Liran Samuni (Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)
2015 - 2019 Dr. Doris Wu (N.N.)
2018 - 2019 MSc Kayla Kolff (University of Utrecht, NL)
last update
Sep 2019
