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January 14, 2025

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Tracking the Pride: Integrating Technology and Traditional Knowledge to Study Lions in Semi-arid systems

Institute Seminar by Genevieve Finerty
  • Date: Jul 15, 2025
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Genevieve Finerty
  • Dr Genevieve Finerty is a behavioural ecologist and conservation scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and Head of Research at Leopard Ecology & Conservation in Botswana. Her work explores the drivers and consequences of group living in large carnivores, with a focus on African lions in semi-arid ecosystems. She combines high-resolution movement and acoustic data with local ecological knowledge and landscape perspectives to better understand collective behaviour, coordination, and human–wildlife coexistence. Genevieve’s research bridges technological and interdisciplinary approaches to understand how animals make decisions in challenging and variable environments.
  • Location: MPI-AB Möggingen
  • Room: Seminar room MPI-AB Möggingen + Online
  • Host: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • Contact: afogato@ab.mpg.de
Group living in social carnivores like lions is often framed through the lens of cooperation and competition, but these dynamics unfold in ecologically diverse and spatially complex systems. In this talk, I explore how lions navigate group living in semi-arid environments, drawing on long-term ... [more]

Sensory processing and decision making in a social context: From odors to swarm motion in insects

Doctoral defense by Inga Petelski, supervised by Einat Couzin-Fuchs
  • Date: Jul 16, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Inga Petelski
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: XS306
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Quantifying adaptations of mammals to human-dominated landscapes

Doctoral defense by Claudio Monteza, supervised by Meg Crofoot
  • Date: Jul 16, 2025
  • Time: 04:30 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Claudio Monteza
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: P0603 + online
For my doctoral work, I used camera traps to investigate ecological and behavioral adaptations of ground-dwelling mammals to human-presence and features of human-dominated landscapes (e.g., forest fragments, plantations, agricultural fields, and roads). I found that at first glance mammals appear ... [more]

The defensive behaviour of honey bees (Apis mellifera): individuality, social regulation, and neural mechanisms

Doctoral defense by Kavitha Kannan, supervised by Morgane Nouvian
  • Date: Jul 22, 2025
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kavitha Kannan
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: ZT 702 + online
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The Neuroethology of Collective Decision-Making in the Desert Locust

Doctoral defense by Yannick Günzel, supervised by Einat Couzin-Fuchs
  • Date: Jul 24, 2025
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Yannick Günzel
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: A 703 + online
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From the PhD-Odyssey to Project Management

Welcome Week
  • Start: Sep 29, 2025 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Sep 30, 2025 05:00 PM
  • Speaker: Sabine Preusse, RaumZeit e.K.
  • Dr. Sabine Preusse received her PhD in theoretical astrophysics in 2005 after studying geophysics. After her doctorate, she became project manager for European research and development projects at the Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum in Karlsruhe in the field of production technologies in 2006. In 2011, she started her own business, RaumZeit e.K. Coaching Beratung Training, focusing on proposal writing and project management of research and innovation projects. Since then, she has accompanied scientists and research groups individually and in teams as a trainer, coach and consultant. In her project management approach, Dr. Preusse transfers classical and agile project management approaches to the context of research projects. In doing so, she integrates her own experience with content and methods from her advanced training courses. She is a business economist (IWW), BDVT certified trainer and consultant, BDVT certified business coach and expert in controlling success. In addition, she has received further training in the areas of intellectual property, communication, free educational materials, video production for the dissemination of project results, among others.
  • Location: University of Konstanz
  • Room: Y310 + Y311
  • Host: IMPRS
  • Contact: imprs@uni-konstanz.de
Doing a PhD is very much related to a hero’s story. Starting highly motivated defining the research topic, PhD-students soon encounter the first obstacles. However, like heroes they will meet someone, a mentor, who will get deeply involved in their training as a researcher. This may be a supervisor ... [more]

Lange Nacht der Münchner Museen 2025

Was können wir lernen, wenn wir Tieren zuhören?
  • Start: Oct 18, 2025 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Oct 19, 2025 01:00 AM
  • Speaker: Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensbiologie
  • Location: Max-Planck-Haus am Hofgarten, Hofgartenstraße 8
  • Host: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
  • Topic: Participation in long nights, festivals
  • Contact: events@ab.mpg.de
Bei der Langen Nacht der Münchner Museen am 18. Oktober 2025 öffnen rund 100 Münchner Museen, Sammlungen, Galerien, Kunsträume und viele weitere Orte ihre Pforten von 18 bis 1 Uhr nachts. [more]

Data Visualization with R - Mastering Visual Data Communication (online course)

  • Start: Nov 11, 2025 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Nov 27, 2025 05:30 PM
  • Speaker: Rick Scavetta
  • Rick Scavetta has been operating as an independent workshop trainer, freelance data scientist, and co-founder since 2012. Under the name Scavetta Academy, Rick maintains a strong and recurring presence at prominent research institutes throughout Germany. These include several Max Planck Institutes and Excellence Clusters, covering diverse fields such as primatology, earth sciences, marine biology, molecular genetics, and behavioral psychology. With online courses featured on DataCamp, Rick's teachings have reached more than 200,000 students since 2016. Additionally, he has made contributions to advanced data science courses offered by O’Reilly and Manning.
  • Location: online
  • Host: IMPRS AND KONSTANZ RESEARCH SCHOOL
  • Contact: imprs@uni-konstanz.de
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