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Staff
Hofer, Heribert
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 100
Telefax: ++49-30 5168 735
Email: direktor@izw-berlin.de
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Education
1978 - 1981 Undergraduate studies in biology and philosophy,
University of Saarbrücken
1981 - 1986 Postgraduate studies in zoology (DPhil), University
Oxford, UK
1997 "Habilitation"
in Zoology, Faculty of Biology, LMU Munich
Scientific
career
1984 - 1986 Scientific assistant, Zoological Institute,
University of Saarbrücken
1986 - 1989 Postdoc, Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioural Physiology
(MPIV), Seewiesen
1990 - 1999 Senior Research Scientist, MPIV, Seewiesen
seit 2000 Director
at the IZW Berlin and Professor for Interdisciplinary Zoo and Wildlife Science, Faculty
for
Veterinary Medicine, FU Berlin
2003
- 2005 Speaker of the Board
of Directors of the Forschungsverbund Berlin
e.V. (a group of 8 Leibniz-Institutes in
Berlin)
Main
topics of interest
- Stress in wildlife: behavioural
and physiological measures, interaction
with health status and pathogen load
and consequences for biological conservation
- Behavioural ecology, particularly
sexual conflict and sexual selection,
mating tactics and sperm competition,
group living and social strategies,
dominance hierarchies, sibling rivalry
- Ecological, behavioural and evolutionary
epidemiology of viruses in carnivore
and ungulate populations
- Land use conflicts with wildlife
and conservation in the contexts of
bush meat hunting, wildlife damage and
conservation area design, including
transdisciplinary, participatory research
approaches
- The application of statistical methods
in the fields of animal behaviour, ecology,
behavioural ecology, and phylogeny
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Becker, Mirjam
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 527
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: becker@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
2000 - 2006 Studies
of biology at the University of Hamburg
07-10/2006 Field
work (diploma thesis), Christmas Island, Australia
06/ 2007 Diploma
degree
since 2008 PhD
student at the IZW; Thema: "Energy
allocation and life-history strategies in
European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)".
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Benhaiem, Sarah
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 527
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: benhaiem@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
2004 - 2006 Bsc
of Biology of organism at the university
of Rennes 1, France
2005
- 2006 Msc
of Biology of organism at the university
of Rennes 1, France
and at the University of
Thessaloniki, Greece
2006 - 2007 Diploma
Thesis:
"Influene of hunting on vigilance and selection
of feeding sites in roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)",
CEFS-INRA, Castanet-Tolosan, France
seit 2007 PhD
student at the IZW; "Sibling rivalry and the effect
of the social environment on corticosteroid concentration
in juvenile spotted hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta)".
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Berger, Anne
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 328
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: berger@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
1975 - 1987
Primary
and extended secondary school education
1987
Final
examinations (matriculation standard)
1987 - 1988 Zoo
animal keeper in the Tierpark Berlin-Friedrichsfelde
(especially for birds)
1988 - 1993
Student
of biology at Humboldt-University of Berlin
with the specialisation on physiology and
behaviour
Diploma (Humboldt-University
of Berlin)
"Investigations of diurnal
rhythm on Przewalski horse in winter"
1993 - 1999 Research
student at the Martin-Luther-University
of Halle-Wittenberg in cooperation with
the Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Berlin
Dissertation
Dr. rer. nat. (Martin-Luther-University
of Halle-Wittenberg)
"Chronobiological investigations on
Przewalski horse (Equus ferus przewalskii)
and red deer (Cervus elaphus) under
quasi-natural conditions and possible approaches to chronobiological diagnosis
of stress"
since 1999 Scientist
at the Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife
Research Berlin in the research group "Chronoecology"
Main topics of interest
- stress detection by chronobiological
analysis of behaviour
- research on daily and annual biological
rhythms of wildlife
- development of methods for automatic
measurement and analysis of behaviour
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East, Marion
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 512
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: east@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
The Leibniz Institute of Zoo and Wildlife Research.
Germany. 1999 - and currently. Research Scientist. Evolutionary
Ecology Research Group.
The Max-Planck Institute for Behavioural Physiology,
Germany. 1987-1999. Research Scientist. The behavioural
ecology of spotted hyaenas in the Serengeti National
Park, Tanzania.
Agricultural Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship,
the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. 1984-1987.Assessment
of damage caused by avian pests to autumn sown barley.
National Environmental Research Council Postdoctoral
Fellowship. Edward Grey Institute for Ornithology, University
of Oxford, U.K. 1981-1984. Population dynamics of tits
and other insectivorous woodland birds.
Ph. D. The University of Sussex, U.K. 1977-1981.
The behavioural ecology of the robin (Erithacus rubecula).
Main topics of interest
- Fitness consequences of social life
- Maternal investment
- Sexual conflict, mate choice and mating tactics
- Host-pathogen interactions
- Human-wildlife conflict
Memberships
- Association
for the Study of Animal Behaviour, UK.
- IUCN Hyaena Specialist Group
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Greiner, Sabine
Leibniz Institute for Zoo- and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 712
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: greiner@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
Since 07/2007 PhD
student at the IZW with the topic "Endocrinological
basis of mating tactics in the greater sac-winged
bat, Saccopteryx
bilineata"
07/2004-07/2007 Scientific
assistant at the University of Hamburg in
the frame of the BMBF project "BIOTA Southern Africa"
04/2004 Diploma
degree at the University of Würzburg
2002-2003 Diploma
thesis at the Max-Planck Institute for Chemical
Ecology in Jena, Thesis titel: "Inducibility
of extrafloral nectar flow in myrmecophytic
and myrmecophilic mexican Acacia species"
1997-2004
Studies
of Biology at the University of Würzburg
with the main topics: Plant Ecophysiology,
Tropical Biology and Behavioural Biology
Publications
Greiner, S., Schwarzenberger, F., Voigt, CC. (2011) Predictable timing of oestrus in the tropical bat Saccopteryx bilineata living in a Costa Rican rain forest, Journal of Tropical Ecology 27: 121-131
Greiner, S., Stefanski, V., Dehnhard, M., Voigt, CC. (2010) Plasma testosterone levels decrease after activation of skin immune system in a tropical mammal, General and Comparative Endocrinology 168: 466-473
Heil, M., Greiner, S., Meimberg, H., Krüger, R., Noyer, JL., Heubl, G., Linsenmair, KE & Boland, W. (2004) Evolutionary change from induced to constitutive expression of an indirect plant resistance, Nature 430, 205-208
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Höner, Oliver P.
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 513
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: hoener@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
1988-1994
Biology studies at Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich,
Switzerland
1994 Diploma
Dyadic associations
between red colobus and diana monkeys in
the Taï National Park, Ivory Coast
1995 Stipend
of the DAAD at the Max-Planck-Institute
for Behavioural Physiology Seewiesen
1996-2001
Ph.D., University
of Berne, Switzerland, and Max-Planck-Institute
for Behavioural Physiology Seewiesen
Responses of spotted hyenas
Crocuta crocuta to long-term changes in herbivore populations
in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
2002
Postdoc
at the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology
since 2003 Scientist at the IZW, Research Group Evolutionary Ecology
Main
topics of interest
- Population dynamics and predator-prey relationships
- Mate choice, mating tactics and their fitness
consequences
- The effect of group-living on behaviour and
fitness of individuals
- Impact and epidemiology of pathogens in free-ranging
populations
Reviewer
/ scientific consultant
- Journal
of Mammalogy
- Biology Letters
- South African Journal of Wildlife Research
- Behavioral
Ecology
- Journal
of Tropical Ecology
Memberships
- IUCN/SSC Hyena Specialist Group
- Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
- Schweizerische Zoologische Gesellschaft
- European Society for Evolutionary Biology
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Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 714
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: kramer@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
| 1998
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Dipl.
Ing. Landscape Architecture and Planning,
TU München, Germany
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| 1999-2002
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Dr.
rer. nat., TU München and Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig,
Germany.
Scenarios assessing the viability
of a lynx population in Germany.
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| 2002-2007
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Postdoc,
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
- UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
The ecology
of wild boar and epidemiology of Classical
Swine Fever.
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| 2007-2009
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Marie Curie Fellow, Department
of Biology, University of Bergen, Norway
Impact
of fishery harvesting regimes on the evolution
of parasitic virulence.
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| since 2010
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Researcher, Leibniz
Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research,
Berlin, Germany
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Main
topics of interest
- Applied Ecology and Conservation
- Wildlife Diseases, Epidemiology,
and Control
- Evolution of Virulence
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Krengel, Annika
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 520
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: krengel@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
Since
March 2007 PhD thesis
"Hormones, endocrinology and stress
in free ranging cheetahs on Namibian farmland"
at the
IZW
2005-2007 Studies
of veterinary medicine at the School of
veterinary medicine Hanover, Germany, qualification
as a vet in
February 2007
2004-2005 Studies
of veterinary medicine at the School of
veterinary medicine Lyon, France as an ERASMUS-
student
2004 Participant
of the Cornell Leadership Program at the
Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
2001-2004 Studies
of veterinary medicine at the School of
veterinary medicine Hanover, Germany
Scholarship
02/2008-07/2008
+
11/2008-04/2009 DAAD
scholarship for PhD studies abroad
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Lehmann, David
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Leibniz
Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 712
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: lehmann@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
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Since 07/2009
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PhD thesis at the IZW "Physiological adaptations of mammals toward droughts and desert environments" in Namibia
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2007-2009
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Master Research. Animal Behavior group, Institute of Zoology; University of Zurich, Switzerland. "Does nest sharing in striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) increase vigilance towards nocturnal predators?"
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2006-2007
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Master 1 in Biology, majoring in Ecology, Environment and Biodiversity; University Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1, France
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2005-2006
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Bachelor majoring in Biology, Earth, Planetary and Sciences from the University of Grenoble
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2003-2005
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Two-year university degree: Life science: Biology, Earth, Universe and biochemistry; UJF - Grenoble 1, France
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2003
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High school diploma majoring in Earth and Life Sciences, Itec Bois-Fleurie High School, Grenoble, France
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Melzheimer, Jörg
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 520
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: melzheimer@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
Since 2005
PhD-Fellow at the IZW working on "Spatiotemporal
Habitat Use and Prey Preferences of Cheetah
(Acinonyx jubatus) on Commercial
Farmland in Namibia - New Implications for
Integrative Conservation Efforts"
2004-2005
Research in "Good Behaviour Rules:
Scaling up from Individual Dispersal Behaviour
to Regional Persistence" in the Kalahari,
South Africa as a DAAD-fellow
Jan. 2004
Diploma thesis at
the University of Potsdam with the topic
"Impacts of Land Use and Fire on the Arboreal
Lizard Mabuya spilogaster (Scincidae)
- Analysis of Habitat Use and Suitability"
within the framework of BIOTA in South Africa
1998-2003
Studying Biology at the Philipps-University
Marburg, the Universidade Federal de Santa
Catarina in Florianopolis, Brasil, the University
of Potsdam and at the University of the
Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa
Bursaries
2004-2005 Bursary
of the DAAD
2002-2003 Bursary
of the DAAD
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Ortmann, Sylvia
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 515
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: ortmann@izw-berlin.de
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Education
Study
of biology at the Philipps-University Marburg
1997 PhD
(Dr. rer. nat.)
Thesis: "Strategies
of seasonal adaptations of Alpine marmots
(Marmota marmota L.)" (in German)
Employment
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1/1990 - 4/1997
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Research assistant in the "Collaborative
research centre 305: Ecophysiology: Processing
of environmental signals" and PhD-Student
at Philipps-University, Marburg (Dept. Animal
physiology, ecophysiology)
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5/1997 - 1/2003
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Researcher at the German Institute of Human
Nutrition, Potsdam (Dept. Biochemistry and
physiology of nutrition)
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since 2/2003
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Senior scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo- and Wildlife Research, Berlin (Dept. Evolutionary ecology)
Head of the nutrition laboratory
Scientific head of the IZW field research station
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Main
topics of interest
- Life history strategies and adaptation to seasonality
in cervids
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energy allocation and body weight regulation, optimal
litter size, reproductive strategies of
females, mating system, population dynamics, inter- and intraspecific conflicts, maternal investment, costs of reproduction (free ranging and
captive animals)
- Physiological strategies in nutrition and digestion
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diet, nutritition and digestive physiology of ruminating
and non-ruminating forestomach fermenters
(zoo animals)
- Feeding ecology of Great Apes
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food choice and social systems, habitat quality and
group size, digestion efficiency (field
and zoo studies)
Awards
1999 Horst-Wiehe-Award
of the German Zoological Society (biennial
award for the best PhD thesis in zoology)
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Popa-Lisseanu, Ana G.
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Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 326
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: anapopa@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
1997 - 2002 Study of Biology at the Autónoma University of Madrid (UAM)
2003 - 2006 PhD at the Estación Biológica de Doñana, Seville, Spain. "Roosting behaviour, foraging ecology and the enigmatic dietary habits of the aerial-hawking bat Nyctalus lasiopterus".
2007 Post-doc at the Division of Conservation Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland. "Flight costs of the European free-tailed bat".
2008 - Post-doc at the IZW. "European Bat Migration Project"
Main topics of interest
- Stable isotopes as dietary and geographical tracers in animal populations
- Behavior, evolution and social interactions in fission-fusion societies
- Radar systems for monitoring animal movement patterns
- Forces driving sexual segregation, partial and complete migration in wildlife populations
- Conservation of forest bats
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Schneeberger, Karin
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Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 527
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: schneeberger@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
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2003 - 2007
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Bachelor of Science at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Berne, Switzerland. Bachelor-Thesis: "Do male Crickets care about the Quality of their Partner?"
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2007 - 2009
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Master of Science at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Berne, with Speciation in Behavioural Ecology. Master-Thesis: "Altruism in Rats depends on Costs to Donor and Condition of Recipient"
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since 09/2009
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PhD thesis at the IZW, topic: "Mate Choice and Olfaction in Bats"
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Main topics of interest
- MHC and Olfaction
- Mechanisms of Mate Choice
- Honest Signals and Reproductive Strategies
- Evolution of Cooperation and Altruism
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Stommel, Claudia
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Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Email: stommel@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
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since 2010
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PhD thesis at the IZW: "Effects
of changes in surface water
availability on larger mammals
in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania"
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2009
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Diploma degree at the University
of Bonn
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2008 - 2009
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Diploma thesis at the Zoological
Research Museum Koenig (ZFMK)
in Bonn: "Habitat use,
activity pattern and diet of
leopards (Panthera pardus)
in Luambe National Park (Zambia)
and a bordering Game Management
Area"
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Scholarships
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2011
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DAAD scholarship for PhD
studies abroad
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2007
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Travel grant of the Union
of German Wildlife Biologists
(VWJD)
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Voigt, Christian
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 517
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: voigt@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
1987-1993 Study
of Biology
University Erlangen-Nürnberg
1994-1998 Dissertation
(fellow of the "Studienstiftung des
Deutschen Volkes"), University Erlangen-Nürnberg
1999 DAAD-postdoc-fellow with
Prof. Dr. Thomas H. Kunz, Boston University,
Boston, USA
2000 DAAD-postdoc-fellow
with Prof. Dr. Jack Bradbury &
Prof. Dr. Jerrold Meinwald, Cornell Universität,
Ithaca, USA
2001 Postdoc
with Prof. Dr. Fritz Trillmich, Behavioral
Biology, University of Bielefeld
Since
July 2001 Research Scientist in the research
group evolutionary ecology of the IZW;
head
of the stable isotope laboratory
Main topics of interest
- Ecology
of mammal ensembles in the tropics
- Sociobiology of mammals
- Physiological
adaptation of dietary specialists
- Olfactory
communication in mammals
- Development
of minimal-invasive bleeding techniques
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Wachter, Bettina
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
D-10315 Berlin
Germany
Phone: ++49-30 5168 518
Telefax: ++49-30 5126 104
Email: wachter@izw-berlin.de
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Education and scientific career
1988-1994 Study
of biology at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland.
Diploma thesis: "The role of food in mixed
groups of red colobus and diana monkeys
in the Taï National Park, Ivory Coast" (written
in German).
1996-2001 PhD
study at the University of Berne, Switzerland,
and Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioural
Physiology Seewiesen. Dissertation: "Facultative
siblicide, female choice and male reproductive
success in the female-dominated spotted
hyaena Crocuta crocuta in the Ngorongoro
Crater, Tanzania".
Since 2001
: Research scientist at the
IZW, Research Group Evolutionary Ecology
Main topics of interest
- Maternal investment in offspring
- Mate choice and mating tactics
- Reproductive health of carnivores
- Human-wildlife conflicts
Memberships
- Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
- Schweizerische Zoologische Gesellschaft
- IUCN/SSC Hyena Specialist Group
Reviewer
/ scientific consultant
- Journal of Ecological Modelling
- National Geographic
- Journal of Mammalogy
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