Brigitte Schlögl (née Weiß)
Position: Scientific Assistant
Research Group "Primate Behavioural Ecology"
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany
and
University of Leipzig Faculty of Life Science
Institute of Biology
Behavioral Ecology Research Group
Talstrasse 33
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany
phone: +49 341 97-36754
fax: +49 341 97-36848
e-mail: brigitte_schloegl@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research interests
My research revolves around the central theme of social complexity in birds and mammals, which I have studied from many different angles including behavior, cognition, acoustics, and physiology. I have further used quantitative genetics to disentangle environmental, parental and genetic sources of variation in social behavior. In recent years, my focus has been on chemical communication in various species of primates and cooperatively breeding mammals such as meerkats and mole-rats. I am particularly interested in assessing the social information content of animal scents, which I study using behavioural tests (so-called bioassays) and gas chromatography – mass spectrometry. In this context I also optimize and evaluate different sampling methods to allow non-invasive collection of animal scents in the field, and systematically assess the suitability and power of different statistical approaches for analyzing the highly complex, multi-dimensional chemical profiles.
Curriculum Vitae
Present position
since 03/2014 | Scientific Assistant at the Institute of Biology, Behavioural Ecology Group, University of Leipzig; in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (MPI EVA) |
Postdoctoral projects
| 11/2013-02/2014 | Visiting scientist at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Behavioural Ecology and Self-organization, University of Groningen (NL), with a visitors grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Science Research (NWO). Research project: Effects of social support on stress hormones in barnacle and greylag geese |
| 04/2011-10/2013 | Associated scientist at the Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Comparative Zoology group, University of Tübingen. Research Project: Quantitative genetics of social behaviour and cognition in greylag geese |
| 01/2011-03/2011 | Scientific Assistant at the Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Comparative Zoology group, University of Tübingen. Research Project: Quantitative genetics of dominance and aggressive behaviour in greylag geese |
| 04/2009-12/2010 | at the University of Neuchâtel (CH). Research Project: Quantitative genetics of dominance and aggressive behaviour in greylag geese Supervisor: Prof. Katharina Foerster, University of Neuchâtel/University of Tübingen |
Degrees of the University of Vienna, Austria
10/2000-03/2008 | Ph.D. in Behavioural Biology Thesis: The social significance of dialects in Northern resident orcas (Orcinus orca) Supervisor: Ao. Prof. Friedrich Ladich |
| 10/1994-06/2000 | Diploma in Biology Thesis: Social support in juvenile greylag geese (Anser anser) Supervisor: Ao. Prof. Kurt Kotrschal |
Teaching
| since 2017 | Primate Evolution & Taxonomy lecture (IMPRS - PhD) |
| since 2014 | Zoological practical course (BSc) Behavioural Ecology lecture (BSc) Behavioural Ecology practical course (BSc & MSc) Introduction to Statistics in R, seminar & practical course (BSc & MSc) |
| former classes | Bayesian Animal models in R, seminar & practical course (MSc) Behavioural Biology practical course (MSc) Behavioural day excursions (BSc+MSc) |
Referee to scientific journals
- Animal Behaviour, Animal Cognition, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, BioEssays, Biology Letters, Ibis, Journal of Ornithology, Marine Mammal Science, Naturwissenschaften, PLoS One
Publications
(All work published under Weiß)
*equally contributed as first authors