Prof. Dr. Anja Widdig
Position: Group Leader
Research Group "Primate Behavioural Ecology"
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig Germany
Emmy Noether fellow of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
and
University of Leipzig Faculty of Life Science
Institute of Biology
Behavioral Ecology Research Group
Talstrasse 33
D-04103 Leipzig Germany
Co-Director Macaca Nigra Project
Tangkoko Nature Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia
http://pina-ev.org/en/
Curriculum Vitae
Present Position
| since 2010 | Professor of Behavioural Ecology, University of Leipzig Bridge professor between the University of Leipzig and Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig |
Postdoctoral Projects
| 2007-2014 | Group leader of the Junior Research Group of Primate Kin Selection at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Primatology, Leipzig. This group is an Emmy-Noether Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 2006-2007 | Guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Primatology, with a transition grant as an Emmy Noether Fellow of the German Science Foundation (DFG) |
| 2004-2006 | Post-doc at the Institute of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC (USA), in the group of Prof. Susan Alberts with field work in Puerto Rico (Emmy-Noether programme, Phase I) |
2002-2004 | Post-doc at the Institute of Human Genetics, Humboldt University Berlin, in the group of Prof. Peter Nürnberg |
Degrees of the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
| 1997-2002 | Ph.D. in Ethology Thesis: Paternal kinship among adult female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) Supervisor: Prof. Günter Tembrock and Prof. Peter Nürnberg |
| 1992-1996 | Diploma in Biology (Major in Zoology, Minor in Ethology and Ecology) Thesis: Coalition formation among male Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) Supervisor: Prof. Günter Tembrock and Dr. Jürgen W. Streich |
| 1990-1992 | Undergraduate degree in Biology (Vordiplom) (Exams: Zoology, Botany, Math, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Microbiology) |
Degrees of the University of Edinburgh, UK
| 1993-1994 | Undergraduate Student (Exams: Behavioural Ecology, Evolution and Ecology of Plants) |
Referee to scientific journals or other institutions
- American Journal of Primatology
- American Naturalist
- Animal Behaviour
- Behavioral Ecology
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- BMC Ecology
- Ecology and Evolution
- Evolutionary Anthropology
- International Journal of Primatology
- Journal of Comparative Psychology
- Molecular Ecology
- Nature
- PLoS ONE
- Primates
- Proceeding of the Royal Society London
- Trends in Genetics
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- European Research Council (ERC)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Leakey Foundation
Editorial Board
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology since 2004
- ISRN Zoology since 2010-2014
- PLoS ONE since 2012
- PeerJ since 2014
Awards
| 2021 | Supervisor Award University of Leipzig (Nomination) |
| 2019- | Elected deputy of Science Strategy Board of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig |
| 2016- | Admission as Full Member of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig |
| 2010 | Admission to the ‘AcademiaNet’, Robert Bosch Stiftung |
| 2004 | Admission as Emmy-Noether fellow, DFG |
| 1997 | Katharina-Heinroth prize for Diploma thesis |
Publications
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