Contact
Department of Primatology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 200
fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 299
Curriculum Vitae

Name: Hjalmar S. Kühl
Date of Birth: 01.03.1973
Place of Birth: Bochum, Germany
Current Position: Senior scientist
Recent and current activities
- Project manager A.P.E.S. database
- Supervision of PhD students
- Ape/large mammal monitoring projects using camera traps and acoustic devices in Taï NP, Côte d’Ivoire, and Loango NP, Gabon
- Set up of ‘Pan African research and monitoring program’ to fill gaps in available ape population information
- Conducting or consulting on ape surveys in Moukalaba Doudou NP, Gabon; Nouabalé-Ndoki NP, Rep. Congo; Taï NP, Côte d’Ivoire; Loango NP, Gabon; Gola forest and nationwide, Sierra Leone; Sangaredi, Haut Niger, Guinea; Gunung Leuser NP, Indonesia;
- Training and data analysis workshop in survey methodology in Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Sumatra.
Fields of expertise
- Design of monitoring programs
- Development of survey methods, including acoustic and camera trapping methods
- Statistical analysis of survey data
- GIS and Remote sensing
- Statistical modeling
- Meta- and large scale data analysis
- Wildlife ecology
- Epidemiology and infectious disease dynamics
2008 – 2010 | Postdoc in the Department of Primatology at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
2003 – 2008 | PhD student in the Department of Primatology at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
2002 – 2003 | Research assistant in the Department of Primatology at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
2001 – 2002 | Research assistant for habituation of chimpanzee group in the Taϊ Chimpanzee Project, Côte d’Ivoire |
1994 – 2000 | Study of biology at the universities of Freiburg and Konstanz, Germany |
1992 – 1994 | Civilian national service in ornithological station, Karlsruhe, Germany |
1983 – 1992 | High school, Karlsruhe, Germany |