I did my PhD Thesis at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, working on the characterization and identification of the navigational process in homing Pigeons. During that time I also worked part time as Research Fellow and was mainly responsible for the development of new methods for analysis of tracking data and the co-ordination and execution of experiments with pigeons. In 2011 I moved to Australia where I now work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Queensland Brain institute, researching visual guidance in birds.
Experience
2011–present
Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Queensland
Education
2011
University of Frankfurt, PhD
Publications
2014
Minding the gap: in-flight body awareness in birds, Frontiers in Zoology 11(64)
2014
Following the sun: a mathematical analysis of the tracks of clock-shifted homing pigeons, Journal of Experimental Biology 217:2643-2649.
2013
Behavioural lateralization in budgerigars varies with the task and the individual, PLoS ONE 8(12): e82670.
2013
Homing flights of pigeons in the Frankfurt region: the effect of distance and local experience., Animal Behaviour 86:291-307.
2013
Development of the Navigational System in Homing Pigeons: Increase in Complexity of the Navigational Map., Journal of Experimental Biology 216:2675-2681.
2011
Mathematical analysis of the navigational process in homing pigeons., Journal of Theoretical Biology 291:42-46.