PhD projects 2019

This was the list of our 2019 PhD projects.  Application deadline was Jan 15! New projects will be announced again Mid-November.
Open PhD positions for own proposal elaboration within Organismal Biology
Keywords Organismal Biology, behaviour, ecology, evolution, physiology, neurobiology
Supervisor: IMPRS faculty member, to be contacted with an own research proposal more
Keywords olfactory coding, honeybees, calcium imaging, large data analysis, animal behaviour
Main advisor Giovanni Galizia, University of Konstanz more
About the molecular fundations of olfaction: Is coding combinatorial or multidimensional?
Keywords olfactory coding, honeybees, calcium imaging, large data analysis, animal behaviour
Main advisor Giovanni Galizia, University of Konstanz more
The role of testosterone for socio-sexual behaviours of domestic chicken
Keywords Sexual development, chicken brain, transgenic, social behaviour, telemetric
Main advisor Manfred Gahr, MPIO more
The interaction between social behaviour and physical structures in coral reef fishes
Keywords coral reef fish, social behaviour, ecological engineering, physical structure, SCUBA, machine-learning, animal tracking, social network analysis
Main supervisor Alex Jordan, MPI for Ornithology more
Quantitative comparison of behavioural evolution in social fishes
Keywords cichlid fishes, social behaviour, socio-cognitive skills, SCUBA, machine-learning, animal tracking, social network analysis, Lake Tanganyika
Main supervisor Alex Jordan, MPI for Ornithology more
Social contagion of stress responses and consequences for collective action in birds
Keywords: animal social networks, collective behaviour, group-living, indirect effects, social evolution, social resilience, stress physiology
Applicants are invited to contact Dr. Damien Farine to discuss the project ideas and research topic. more
Collective sensing of the resource landscape in migratory fruit bats
Keywords: migration, animal tracking, GPS, foraging, energetic expenditure, sensory networks
Advisors: Teague O'Mara, Dina Dechmann and Martin Wikelski, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell more
Collective migration in a long-distance social migrant
Keywords white storks, collective migration, animal tracking, group coordination, flight energetics
Main supervisor Andrea Flack, MPI for Ornithology more
Computational Approaches to the Experimental Study of Animal Collectives
Keywords self-organization, swarm, school, behavior, information, automated tracking, machine learning, virtual reality, inverse methodologies.
Main adviser Iain Couzin, MPI for Ornithology + University of Konstanz more
Collective Animal Behaviour
Keywords self-organization, swarm, schooling, behavior, information, fish, locusts, birds, tracking, computer vision, virtual reality, self-organization, decision-making, individual differences, evolution
Main adviser Iain Couzin, MPI for Ornithology + University of Konstanz more
3 positions - the neurobiological and behavioural basis of swarming in locusts

3 positions - the neurobiological and behavioural basis of swarming in locusts

Keywords: Locust swarm, virtual reality, collective behaviour, sensory coding, active sensing, olfaction, decision making
Main advisors:
Giovanni Galizia, University of Konstanz
Einat Couzin-Fuchs, University of Konstanz
Iain Couzin, University of Konstanz + MPI for Ornithology
Social learning and cultural inheritance in birds, Parus major

Social learning and cultural inheritance in birds, Parus major

Keywords: collective behaviour, social learning, animal culture, birds, cognitive ecology
Main advisor: Lucy Aplin, MPI for Ornithology
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