Judith Burkart, Dr.
Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology, PI ccccccccccc
Jessie Adriaense, Dr.
Postdoc: NCCR Evolving Language
Joint action (play, parental care, gaze), empathy (emotion contagion, emotion, cognitive bias)
Rahel Brügger, Dr.
Postdoc: ERC Project “ENGINE”
cognitive evolution, thermography, vigilance, interdependence, int
Jorge Cabrera Moreno, Dr.
Postdoc: ERC Project “ENGINE”
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Paola Cerrito, Dr.
Postdoc: Independent Fellowship cccccccccccccc
Life history, comparative neurodevelopment, evolutionary primatology, paleoanthropology
Débora da Cruz Silva
PhD Student: Cotutuelle with Federal University of Rio Grande del Norte
acoustic communication, social dynamics, social bonds
Benjamin Laubi
PhD Student: SNF Project “Acts of Assistance”
endocrinology, male services, social bonds
Konatsu Ono
PhD Student: ERC Project “ENGINE”
communication, ontogeny, species comparisons ccccccccc
Nikhil Phaniraj
PhD Student: NCCR Evolving Language
Vocal learning, social learning, mathematical modeling, AI
Adele Tuozzi
PhD Student: ERC Project “ENGINE”
animal cooperation, emotional regulation ccccccccc
Sandra Werner
Collaborator: ERC Project “ENGINE”
human cooperation, physiological synchronization
Sven Winniger
Master Student: NCCR Evolving Language
acoustic signaling, food sharing, allomaternal care
Research Assistants / Bachelor Students / Internships
Laura Andres
Henry Broadbent
Alumni
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Dr. Sofia Forss
Dr. Yitzchak Ben Mocha
Dr. Alejandro Sanchez
Dr. Sonja Koski: Personality in common marmosets
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Dr. Sandro Sehner: Acquisition and social transfer of information in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)
Dr. Fabia Miss: To merge or not? Phylogenetic and ontogenetic insights on self-other integration and distinction during joint action
Dr. Francisco de Oliveira Terceiro: Interdependence and the cooperative breeding system: Insights from captive and wild common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)
Dr. Yvonne Zürcher: Vocal Learning and Flexibility in the Communication of Common Marmosets (Callithrix Jacchus)
Dr. Michèle Schubiger: Optimising tests of primate cognition: Towards valid species comparisons
Dr. Christa Finkenwirth: Individual Variation in Prosociality of Group-living Common Marmosets: Assessing the Role of Oxytocin and Social Bonding
Dr. Anke Bullinger: Cooperative problem solving in chimpanzees and common marmosets
Dr. Aleksandra Kupferberg: Agency cues relevant for action understanding in common marmosets
Dr. Claudia Rudolf v. Rohr: Evolutionary roots of morality: Social norms and policing in chimpanzees
Dr. Stephan Lehner: Innovation & cumulative culture in orang-utans
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Elena Stoilova: How experimentally induced interdependence shapes social bonds in common marmosets (Callithrix Jacchus)
Vasudha Kulkarni: Automated tracking of behavioural synchrony in cooperating marmosets
Manon Benninger: Measuring interpersonal synchronicity from thermal imaging data during a dyadic cooperation task
Alice Godard: Play behavior in common marmosets
Flavia Mobili: Testing memory abilities in common marmosets
Samin Gokcekus: Behavioral Flexibility, Curiosity, and Cooperative Breeding – Dealing with Complex Concepts and Paradigms
Florine Ermatinger: Infrared Thermography in common marmosets, meerkats and squirrel monkeys
Ruben Richiger: Group service in spider monkeys
Zaida Kosonen: Group service in capuchin and squirrel monkeys
Sara Wiesendanger: Group service experiments in chimpanzees
Romana Schmon: Action understanding and Theory of Mind in common marmosets
Denise Camenisch: Marmoset social learning: Is there a conformity bias?
Katja Rüth: Ontogeny of prosociality in human infants
Jacqueline Huber: How general is spontaneous prosociality in common marmosets?
Rebecca Furrer: Spontaneous prosociality in common marmosets: Dyad- or individual-specific property?
Maria Foglia: Social learning in common marmosets – Assessing individual differences using a video task
Andrea Strasser: Innovation: Individual differences in problem solving in common marmosets
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Alexandra Kissling
Heinz Galli