Judith Burkart, Dr.

Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology, PI ccccccccccc

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Raphaela Hessen, Dr.

Independent Fellowship: SNSF Ambizione Group Leader & Junior Professor University Konstanz

communication, species comparaison, emotions, joint action 

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Rahel Brügger, Dr.

Postdoc: ERC Project “ENGINE”

cognitive evolution, thermography, vigilance, interdependence, int

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Elliot Howard-Spink, Dr.

Postdoc: NCCR Evolving Language

sequential behaviour, language evolution, syntax, animal cultureint

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Elena Belli

PhD Student: NCCR Evolving Language

mutual gaze, vocal communication, brain anatomy

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Débora da Cruz Silva

PhD Student: Cotutuelle with Federal University of Rio Grande del Norte

acoustic communication, social dynamics, social bonds

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Benjamin Laubi

PhD Student: SNF Project “Acts of Assistance”

endocrinology, male services, social bonds

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Monika Mircheva

PhD Student: ERC Project “ENGINE”

acoustics, communication, interdependence

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Konatsu Ono

PhD Student: ERC Project “ENGINE”

communication, ontogeny, species comparisons ccccccccc

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Nikhil Phaniraj

PhD Student: NCCR Evolving Language

Vocal learning, social learning, mathematical modeling, AI

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Adele Tuozzi

PhD Student: ERC Project “ENGINE”

animal cooperation, emotional regulation ccccccccc

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Carolyn Sanicanin

Master Student: ERC Project “ENGINE”

prosociality, cooperation, interdependence

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Maria Teresa von der Lage

Master Student: ERC Project “ENGINE”

inhibitory control, interdependence

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Rubia Wilks

Master Student: Ambizione Project

joint action, infant transfers

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Julia Brun

Collaborator / Technician: Ambizione Project

communication, species comparison, emotions, joint action 

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Alyssa Müller

Collaborator: ERC Project “ENGINE”

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Vera Müller

Collaborator: ERC Project “ENGINE”

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Jennifer Peter

Research Assistant: ERC Project “ENGINE”

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Eileen Osswald

Collaborator / Technician: ERC Project “ENGINE”

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Hidir Sengül

Technician

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Guest Researchers

Jessie Adriaense, Dr.

Joint action (play, parental care, gaze), empathy (emotion contagion, emotion, cognitive bias)

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Paola Cerrito, Dr.

Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology: Hominin Evolution Group

Life history, comparative neurodevelopment, evolutionary primatology, paleoanthropology

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Jorge Cabrera-Moreno, Dr.

PostDoc at DPZ: Social Neurobiology Laboratory

cognitive hearing, vocal communication, neuroethology, cooperation cccccccccccccc

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Fabia Miss, Dr.

Joint Simon Task across species

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Sandro Sehner, Dr.

Postdoc at University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna: Domestication Lab

social tolerance, cooperarive breeding, communication

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Kaja Wierucka, Dr.

Scientist at DPZ

behavioural ecology, bioacoustics

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Alumni

  • Dr. Michèle Schubiger

    Dr. Sofia Forss

    Dr. Yitzchak Ben Mocha

    Dr. Alejandro Sanchez

    Dr. Sonja Koski: Personality in common marmosets

  • 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

  • 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

  • Laura Andres

    Dominique Ziegler

    Henry Broadbent

    Alexandra Kissling

    Heinz Galli