Judith Burkart, Dr.
Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology, PI ccccccccccc
Raphaela Hessen, Dr.
Independent Fellowship: SNSF Ambizione Group Leader & Junior Professor University Konstanz
communication, species comparaison, emotions, joint action
Rahel Brügger, Dr.
Postdoc: ERC Project “ENGINE”
cognitive evolution, thermography, vigilance, interdependence, int
Elliot Howard-Spink, Dr.
Postdoc: NCCR Evolving Language
sequential behaviour, language evolution, syntax, animal cultureint
Elena Belli
PhD Student: NCCR Evolving Language
mutual gaze, vocal communication, brain anatomy
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
Carolyn Sanicanin
Master Student: ERC Project “ENGINE”
prosociality, cooperation, interdependence
Maria Teresa von der Lage
Master Student: ERC Project “ENGINE”
inhibitory control, interdependence
Julia Brun
Collaborator / Technician: Ambizione Project
communication, species comparison, emotions, joint action
Jennifer Peter
Research Assistant: ERC Project “ENGINE”
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Eileen Osswald
Collaborator / Technician: ERC Project “ENGINE”
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Guest Researchers
Jessie Adriaense, Dr.
Joint action (play, parental care, gaze), empathy (emotion contagion, emotion, cognitive bias)
Paola Cerrito, Dr.
Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology: Hominin Evolution Group
Life history, comparative neurodevelopment, evolutionary primatology, paleoanthropology
Jorge Cabrera-Moreno, Dr.
PostDoc at DPZ: Social Neurobiology Laboratory
cognitive hearing, vocal communication, neuroethology, cooperation cccccccccccccc
Sandro Sehner, Dr.
Postdoc at University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna: Domestication Lab
social tolerance, cooperarive breeding, communication
Kaja Wierucka, Dr.
Scientist at DPZ
behavioural ecology, bioacoustics
Alumni
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Dr. Michèle Schubiger
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. Rahel Brügger: Third-party understanding and social evaluation in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)
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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Sven Winniger: Decoding the link between marmoset food calls and food sharing
Vasudha Kulkarni: Automated tracking of behavioural synchrony in cooperating marmosets
Elena Stoilova: How experimentally induced interdependence shapes social bonds in common marmosets (Callithrix Jacchus)
Konatsu Ono: Communication and supporting physiological mechanisms in cooperating marmosets
Sandra Werner: The role of interpersonal physiological synchronisation and empathy in cooperative tasks
Manon Benninger: Measuring interpersonal synchronicity from thermal imaging data during a dyadic cooperation task
Alyssa Müller: Marmosets recruit group members to solve a cooperative task
Eileen Osswald: Establishing a gold standard to measure social bond strength in Callithirx jacchus
Alice Godard: Play behavior in common marmosets
Luxshiha Santaruban: Co-Representation in children
Flavia Mobili: Testing memory abilities in common marmosets
Hannah Kressig: Group service in bonobos
Samin Gokcekus: Behavioral flexibility, curiosity, and cooperative breeding – Dealing with complex concepts and paradigms
Rhea Ehrismann: Are marmoset food calls functionally referential?
Florine Ermatinger: Infrared Thermography in common marmosets, meerkats and squirrel monkeys
Theresa Kappeler: Reputational judgment and reputation management in marmosets
Jerôme Arnold: Dialects in common marmosets: Do listeners differentiate?
Rahel Brügger: Concern for reputation in common marmosets?
Sjoerd Murris: How marmosets respond after a single group member perceives a frightening stimulus
Fabia Miss: Representing each others’ actions – a joint simon effect in common marmosets?
Eloísa M. Guerreiro Martins: Food sharing among captive common marmosets
Ruben Richiger: Group service in spider monkeys
Zaida Kosonen: Group service in capuchin and squirrel monkeys
Romana Schmon: Action understanding and Theory of Mind in common marmosets
Sara Wiesendanger: Group service experiments in chimpanzees
Oliver Allon: Group Service in common marmosets
Dominique Haiden: Investigating how a captive environment and individual properties influence innovativeness: A comparative study in wild and captive orangutans
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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Laura Andres
Dominique Ziegler
Henry Broadbent
Alexandra Kissling
Heinz Galli