lundi 17 décembre 2018

Large number of Ph.D. positions in collective behaviour - International Max Planck Research School for Organismal Biology

we have a large number of open Ph.D. positions in collective behaviour, and associated fields, in our International Max Planck Research School for Organismal Biology at the University of Konstanz and Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, including:


Social Complexity and Communication Systems in Birds

Keywords social complexity, cultural evolution, vocal learning, social systems, parrots, birds
Advisors  Mary Brooke McElreath1,2mary_mcelreath@eva.mpg.de and Lucy Aplin1 laplin@orn.mpg.de
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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
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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
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Communication and collective movement in coati groups

Keywords. Collective behaviour, vocal communication, movement coordination, GPS, computational analysis, group coordination 
Supervisors. Prof. Meg Crofoot and Dr. Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, University of Konstanz
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Collective sensing of the resource landscape in migratory fruit bats

Keywords: migration, animal tracking, GPS, foraging, energetic expenditure, sensory networks
Advisors: Teague O'MaraDina Dechmann and Martin Wikelski, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell
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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
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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
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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
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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 [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
Main advisorsDamien Farine(University of Konstanz and MPI) and Neeltje Boogert (University of Exeter) [more]


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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Further details, and information as to how to apply can be found here: http://www.orn.mpg.de/projects