PEOPLE

Staff

Prof. Tecumseh Fitch

(Head of Department)

Phone: ++43 1 4277 76111
Fax: ++43 1 4277 9761
Email: tecumseh.fitch@univie.ac.at

Prof. Thomas Bugnyar

(Vice Head of Department)

Phone: ++43 1 4277 76112
Fax: ++43 1 4277 9761
Email: thomas.bugnyar@univie.ac.at

Nadja Kavcik

Secretary

Phone: ++43 1 4277 76101
Fax: ++43 1 4277 9761
Email:nadja.kavcik@univie.ac.at

Petra Pesak, MSc

Project manager

Phone: ++43 1 4277 76102
Email: petra.pesak@univie.ac.at

Dr. Drasko Boko

Lab Manager

Phone: +43 1 4277 76107

Email: drasko.boko@univie.ac.at

Mag. Riccardo Hofer

IT Manager

Phone: ++43 1 4277 76103
Email: riccardo.hofer@univie.ac.at

Mag. Christian Herbst

Bioacoustic lab

Phone: ++43 1 4277 76122
Email: christian.herbst@univie.ac.at

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Ulrike Aust

FWF-Project V3 (Elise Richter): "Picture-object-recognition in pigeons"
FWF-Project P20240: The role of stimulus quality in picture-object
recognition by pigeons

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Dr. Benjamin Charlton:

Bioacoustics project

Email: benjamin.charlton@univie.ac.at

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Dr. Orlaith Fraser

ESF-Project: I-105-G11 "Cooperation in Corvids".
E-mail: orlaith.fraser@univie.ac.at

Dr. Gyula Gajdon

FWF-Project P19087: "The Interrelation of Social Learning and Physical Cognition in Kea"
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Dr. Bruno Gingras

ERC-Grant SOMACCA: Musical syntax and biomusicology

e-mail: bruno.gingras@univie.ac.at

Dr. Jorg Massen

FWF-Lise Meitner-Project M1351-B17: "Cooperation, collaborators and
cognition in ravens"

E-mail: jorg.massen@univie.ac.at

Dr. Corsin Müller

FWF Projekt P21418: "The effect of early experience on physical cognition in dogs"

Email: corsin.mueller@univie.ac.at

Dr. Friederike Range

FWF-Project P21244: "Cognitive tools and emotional context in the development of canine cooperation"
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Dr. Nina Stobbe

ERC-Grant SOMACCA: "Visual artificial grammar learning" and camouflage colouration

E-Mail: nina.stobbe@univie.ac.at

Dr. Angela Stöger-Horwath

FWF Project P23099: Automatic analysis of African elephant vocalizations,
Elephant vocal learning and sound production

E-Mail: angela.stoeger-horwath@univie.ac.at

Dr. Sabine Tebbich

FWF –Project V95-B17 (Elise Richter): Cognitive adaptations in tool-using birds.

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Email: sabine.tebbich@univie.ac.at

Dr. Zsofia Viranyi

ESF project: "Comparative Cognition"; Clever Dog Lab, Wolf Science Center

Email: zsofi.viranyi@gmail.com

Doctoral candidates

Mag. Markus Böckle

"Vocal Communication in Ravens"
Email: markus.boeckle@univie.ac.at

Dipl. Biol. Anna Braun - at the KLF Grünau

FWF-Project Y366-B17: "START PREIS"

Mag. Tina Gunhold

"Transmission of information and tradition formation in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)"
Email: tina.gunhold@univie.ac.at

Mag. Lisa Horn

DOC/FORTE-Project: "The influence of the individual dog-human relationship on the cognitive performance of dogs"
Email: lisa.horn@univie.ac.at

Mauricio Martins, MD MSc

Research Cluster: Shared Neural Resources for Music and Language; Language Evolution and Recursion: Developing Analysis Methods for Visual and Auditory Recursive Patterns Recognition

Email: mauricio.martins@univie.ac.at

Julia Müller, BSc, MSc

"Spatial cognition in reptiles"

Email: julia.mueller@univie.ac.at

Jinook Oh, BSc

ERC Grant SOMACCA

E-mail: jinook.oh@univie.ac.at

Andrea Ravignani, BSc MSc

ERC Grant SOMACCA: Artificial Grammar Learning, Music Cognition
E-mail: andrea.ravignani@univie.ac.at

Mag. Stefanie Riemer

"Development of personality and of problem solving abilities in dogs from puppyhood to adulthood"

e-mail: stefanie.riemer@univie.ac.at

Mag. Ruth Sonnweber

ERC Grant SOMACCA: Artificial Grammar Learning

E-mail: ruth-sophie.sonnweber@univie.ac.at

Dipl. Biol. Claudia Stephan

FWF-Projekt P20240: "The role of stimulus quality in picture-object recognition by pigeons"
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Mag. Michael Steurer

"A statistical approach to the analysis of animal behaviour in multiple matching experiments"
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Mag. Gesche Westphal Fitch

ERC Grant SOMACCA: Processing of hierarchical structures in animals and humans
Email: gesche.w.fitch@univie.ac.at

Students working for Diploma (M.Sc.)

Denise Kurz (Discriminative touchscreen experiments in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus))
Karin Leitner (Cooperation in dogs)
Johanna Nobis (Learning about food quality in a social condition: Can Common Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) intentionally control their scrounging behaviour?)
Mark O´Hara (Reversal Learning in the Kea (Nestor notabilis): Comparing the Touchscreen to a Reality-Approach)
Dora Stefani (Do marmosets copy actions or results?)
Martin Tiefenthaler (Working dogs personalities differences in sheep herding behaviour and performance in individual and social learning tasks in border collies)
Birgit Trawöger (The matching-to-sample task in dogs)
Steffanie Heufelder (Social play in captive timber wolves (Canis lupus occidentalis): possible functions and links to social relationship)
Katrin Hann (Social Support in dogs (Canis familiaris) and wolves (Canis lupus): the stress ameliorating effect of conspecific and human partners in young pups)
Tanja Kleinhappel (Individual recognition in pigeons and jackdaws)
Arno Cimadom (Behavioural flexibility and discrimination learning in jackdaws (Corvus monedula) and New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides))