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Professor at the German Primate Center and Göttingen University
Head of Research Group "Cognitive Ethology" (since 2004)

2009
Associate Member of the Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften

2007
Member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

2004
Heisenberg fellow German Science Foundation
Habilitation University Leipzig

2000
Post-doctoral fellow, MPI Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

1997
Post-doctoral fellow, Dep. of Psychology, U Pennsylvania

1996
Visiting Scientist, Harvard University and NIH

1996
Ph.D. Free University of Berlin

1993
Diploma in Biology, Free University of Berlin

 

 

 



 

 

 



Scientific societies

Member of the board of the LMU München
Member of the board "Women in Science" of the Bosch Stiftung
Member of the board of the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Stiftung
President of the European Federation of Primatology
Member of "Die Junge Akademie" (2003-2008)
German Primatological Society
Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft
Ethologische Gesellschaft
International Primatological Society
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour



Editorial board
Animal Behaviour (2006-2008)
Folia primatologica (2002-

Consulting Editor
Animal Behaviour (2005)

Ad hoc reviewer
Science Trends in Cognitive Science
Trends in Neuroscience
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Journal of Experimental Biology
Journal of Comparative Psychology
Animal Cognition
Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology
American Journal of Primatology
Behaviour
American Anthropologist
Ethology
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
International Journal of Primatology
Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behaviour
Physiology & Behavior