Max-Planck-Institut
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
Education
| since 07/2018 | PhD student at the University of Leipzig in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (MPI EVA) Dissertation title: “The good immigrant: Dispersing orangutan males as cultural vectors and the evolution of tolerance vs. xenophobia” Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anja Widdig (University of Leipzig), Prof. Dr. Michael Krützen (University of Zurich) |
| 10/2013-10/2016 | Master of Science in Biology (with focus on Biodiversity & Ecology) Thesis title: " Learning from the immigrants: Dispersing orangutan males as cultural vectors” Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jutta Schneider (University of Hamburg) & Prof. Dr. Carel van Schaik (University of Zurich) |
| 10/2014-03/2015 | Erasmus Mobility Student, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 10/2010-10/2013 | Bachelor of Science in Biology Thesis title: „ Effects of ageing in social interest in barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) – Testing prediction from socio-emotional selectivity theory“ Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jutta Schneider (University of Hamburg) & Prof. Dr. Julia Fischer (German Primate Center, University of Göttingen). |
Work experience
| 04/2017-12/2018 | Freelance Biologist, Agency for Environment and Energy of the City of Hamburg, Department of Conservation |
| 07/2017 | Freelance Biologist, “Hadabuan Hills” Expedition, North Sumatra, Indonesia |
| 11/2017-12/2017 | Scientific advisor GEO Magazine, Reportage on Culture in Sumatran Orangutans, Sumatra, Indonesia |
| 12/2017 | Freelance Biologist, NGO “Lebenraum Regenwald e.V.”, in collaboration with BOSF Bornean Orangutan Survival Foundation |
| 02/2014-12/2014 | Freelance Biologist, Agency for Environment and Energy of the City of Hamburg, Department of Conservation |
| 04/2011-07/2011 | Research assistant, Bio Center Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, Germany, Course “Biodiversity of plants” |
