IMPRS Board Members

July 17, 2025


Senior Board Members

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Prof. Dr. Barbara Fruth

Group Leader
IMPRS Board Member
IMPRS Faculty
IMPRS Spokesperson
+49 7531-94505-20
Konstanz - Bücklestrasse

I am a behavioural ecologist and evolutionary anthropologist, interested in bonobo social behaviour, their ecological constraints, their role within the ecosystem, and their life history. One of my foci is their food repertoire ranging from items ingested for nutritional to those used for medicinal purpose. For this, I follow an interdisciplinary approach integrating herbaria, analyses of plant’s phytochemical and pharmacological properties, and their effect on growth, health and fitness of individual bonobos.

• Nutritional Ecology • Conservation • Life history • Community Ecology • Bonobos

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Dr. Katrin Vogt

Affiliated Scientist
IMPRS Board Member
IMPRS Faculty
University of Konstanz

PhD Student Representatives

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Anupama Nayak Manel

Doctoral Student
IMPRS Doctoral Student
IMPRS Student Representative

I’m interested in sensory ecology and how it mediates animal behavior. Using behavioral data from flower foraging insects, I study how visual mechanisms and experiences shape visual preferences during plant-pollinator interactions.

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Anumit Saralkar

IMPRS Doctoral Student
IMPRS Student Representative
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