Overview of Doctoral Projects for 2021

Main supervisor: Dr Lucy Aplin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour 
Keywords: Cognitive Evolution; Parrots; Animal Culture; Animal Intelligence
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Keywords: Zebrafish, animal behavior, decision-making, two-photon calcium imaging, electrophysiology.
Main Advisor: Armin Bahl, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, University of Konstanz [more]

Main supervisor: Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and Cluster of Excellence, University of Konstanz
Keywords: computer vision, movement ecology, collective behavior, imaging technologies, animal tracking and movement analysis [more]

Keywords swarm, schooling, behavior, information, fish, locusts, tracking, computer vision, virtual reality, self-organization, decision-making, individual differences, evolution
Main adviser  Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and Cluster of Excellence, University of Konstanz [more]

Keywords: virtual reality, collective behaviour
Main Advisor: Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and Cluster of Excellence, University of Konstanz [more]

Keywords: Behaviour, neuroscience, electrophysiology and group living insects
Main Advisor: Einat Couzin-Fuchs, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, University of Konstanz [more]

Keywords: video tracking & quantitative modeling approaches for forging decisions in swarm-forming rats and locusts.
Dual supervision: Einat Couzin-Fuchs and Ahmed El Hady, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, University of Konstanz [more]

Keywords: Animal societies, social behavior, behavioral variation, complex systems, modeling, quantitative analysis
Dual Advisor: Meg Crofoot and Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin [more]

Keywords: White Storks, migration behaviour
Main Advisor: Andrea Flack, Max Planck Institute of Animal Bahavior [more]

Keywords: posture-tracking methods across many species and social interactions
Main Advisor: Kano Fumihiro, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, University of Konstanz  [more]

Keywords: Collective behaviour, animal behaviour, Siberian jay, fieldwork
Main Advisor: Michael Griesser, Department of Biology & Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, University of Konstanz [more]

Keywords: Climate change, endangered species, ecological behaviour
Main supervisor: Urs Kalbitzer, University of Konstanz and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior  [more]

Keywords: social insect, neuromodulatory systems, decision making and behaviour
Main Supervisor: Christoph Kleineidam, University of Konstanz [more]

Keywords: social neuroethology, honeybees, behaviour, neurobiology
Main Advisor: Morgane Nouvian & Giovanni Galizia, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, University of Konstanz [more]

Keywords: analysis of movement and acoustic data, tracking technology and computational modeling
Main Advisor: Ariana Strandburg-Peschkin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior & University of Konstanz [more]

Keywords: decision-making paradigms, using a combination of behavioral assays and neurogenetic tools
Main Advisor: Katrin Vogt, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, University of Konstanz [more]