Ein Stellenangebot der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
Research fellow (m/f/d) in the field of animal behaviour
The DFG Emmy Noether project „Maintaining the balance of power in animal societies“ investigates how levelling processes, which may have different underlying mechanisms but exhibit functional convergence, constrain inequality in different species. Using long-term data (i), the PhD student will investigate the situational drivers of coalitionary formation in birds and mammals in collaboration with Eli Strauss (DomArchive) and Lauren Brent (Cayo Santiago, MacaqueNet).
The PhD student project also involves collective movement experiments (ii) with robotic fish and small freshwater fish in the aquariums at the Humboldt University of Berlin, in collaboration with David Bierbach and Jens Krause. The PhD student will be supervised by the Emmy Noether Group Leader Danai Papageorgiou.
Responsibilities
- scientific service in research in the DFG project incl. conducting collaborative work with the developers and contributors of large animal social interaction databases, such as DomArchive and MacaqueNet
- designing and conducting lab-based experiments with fish
- working with a robotic fish setup
- setting up and maintaining video tracking systems
- using computer vision tools to track collective movement
- data management and statistical analyses in R and Python
- presentation of results at scientific conferences and publication of results in peer-reviewed journals together with the project team
- tasks for personal scientific qualification (doctorate)
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