2004
Senior scientist, Research Group ‘Cognitive Ethology’, German Primate Center
1997
Scientist, Dept. Ethology & Ecology, German Primate Center
1995
PostDoc, Dept. Ethology & Ecology, German Primate Center
1994
PostDoc, Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke University, USA
1993
PhD Zoology, Georg August University, Göttingen: Feeding Competition in Hamadryas Baboons. An Experimental Approach
1985
Diploma Biology, Georg August University, Göttingen: Ontogeny of Taste Reactions in the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Scientific societiesAnimal Behavior Society
Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft
Ethologische Gesellschaft
Gesellschaft für Primatologie
Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie (gtö)
International Primatological Society
IUCN Primate Specialist Group
Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft
Editorial boardSAJEST Southern Africa Journal of Education, Science and Technology
Ad hoc reviewerAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Journal of Primatology, Animal Behaviour, Animal Conservation, Animal Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Behaviour, Current Anthropology, Ethology, Folia Primatologica, Hormones and Behaviour, International Journal of Primatology, Journal of Zoology, Oecologia, Primates, Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, Zoology in the Middle East
