Contact
Bridge professorship
between
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & University of Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Anja Widdig
e-mail: anja_widdig@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
phone.: ++49 (0)341 9736 707
Curriculum Vitae
Present Position
since 01/2010 | Professor for Behavioral Ecology at the University Leipzig |
since 01/2010 | Bridging Professorship between University Leipzig (UL) and Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA) |
06/2007-06/2014 | 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) |
Postdoctoral Projects
10/2006-05/2007 | 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) |
10/2004-09/2006 | at the Caribbean Primate Research Center, University Puerto Rico Research Project: Mechanisms of paternal kin discrimination in primates Supervisor: Prof. Susan Alberts, Duke University Durham, NC, USA |
04/2003-09/2004 | at the Institute of Medical Genetics Humboldt University Berlin Research Project: Consequences of group fission for the patterns of relatedness Supervisor: Prof. Michael Krawczak, University Kiel, Germany |
07/2002-03/2003 | at the Institute of Medical Genetics, Humboldt University Berlin Research Project: Male reproductive skew in male rhesus macaques Supervisor: Prof. Peter Nürnberg, Humboldt University Berlin |
Degrees of the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
05/1997-07/2002 | Ph.D. in Ethology Thesis: Paternal kinship among adult female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) Supervisor: Prof. Günter Tembrock and Prof. Peter Nürnberg |
10/1992-06/1996 | 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 |
10/1990-09/1992 | Undergraduate degree in Biology (Vordiplom) (Exams: Zoology, Botany, Math, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Microbiology) |
Degrees of the University of Edinburgh, UK
10/1993-09/1994 | 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