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

Martina Schiestl

Animal Trainer

phone: 0650/9301422

e-mail: martina.schiestl@univie.ac.at

Alexandra Christian

Animal Keeper

Phone: +43 664 60277 76121

Email: alexandra.christian@univie.ac.at

Tanja Hampel

Animal keeper/Haidlhof

Phone: +436646027776123

e-mail: tanja.hampel@univie.ac.at

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Alice Auersperg

Goffin Lab

The mechanisms of technical problem solving in juvenile Goffin cockatoos (Cacatua goffini).

e-mail: alice.auersperg@univie.ac.at

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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Email: Opens window for sending email ulrike.aust@univie.ac.at

Dr. Daniel Bowling

Synchronization and temporal regularity in speech and music

e-mail: dan.bowling@univie.ac.at

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

Mag. Dr. Christine Schwab

WWTF-Project CS11-008: “Modelling social transmission: how relationships, group size and group structure influence social learning in wild and captive corvids”

E-mail: christine.schwab@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

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"

Dipl. Biol. Sarah Deventer

PhD Programme "Cognition and Communication"

Email: sarah.deventer@univie.ac.at

Maxime García, BSc MSc

Bioacoustics

Email: maxime.garcia@univie.ac.at

Mag. Tina Gunhold

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

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

Stephan Reber, BSc MSc

ERC Grant SOMACCA

Email: stephan.reber@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"
Email: Opens window for sending email claudia.stephan@univie.ac.at

Mag. Michael Steurer

"A statistical approach to the analysis of animal behaviour in multiple matching experiments"
Email: Opens window for sending email michael.steurer@univie.ac.at

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))

Technical staff

Dr. Estela Puig-Waldmüller

Research Cluster: Shared Neural Resources for Music and Language

E-mail: estela.puig@univie.ac.at

Associated researchers

Prof. Ludwig Huber

Messerli-Institut für Mensch-Tier-Beziehung

e-mail: Ludwig.Huber@vetmeduni.ac.at

Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Kurt Kotrschal

Konrad Lorenz Research Station Gruenau

e-mail: kurt.kotrschal@univie.ac.at

Alumni (date of graduation)

Dr. Michaela Loidolt (1999)
Dr. Ulrike Aust (2000)
Dr. Ruth A. Byrne (2004)
Dr. Michael Kuba (2004)
Dr. Nicola Schiel (2004)
Dr. Bernhard Voelkl (2005)
Dr. Renate Glück (2005)
Dr. Daniela Meisl (2006)
Dr. Dagmar Werdenich (2006)
Dr. Eveline Dungl (2008)
Dr. Cornelia Schrauf (2010)
Dr. Alice Auersperg (2011)
Mag. Sabine Rechberger (2000)
Mag. Renate Nowotny (2000)
Mag. Stefanie Rainer (2000)
Mag. Marion Praschberger (2001)
Mag. Bernhard Voelkl (2001)
Mag. Wilfried Apfalter (2001)
Mag. Natacha Mendes (2002)
Mag. Johan Kemps (2002)
Mag. Renate Lenz (2002)
Mag. Daniela Seebacher (2004)
MMag. Christine Schwab (2004)
Mag. Helga Groll (2005)
Mag. Claudia Kasper (2005)
Mag. Sandra Rovina (2006)
Mag. Cornelia Schrauf (2006)
Mag. Ira Federspiel (2006)
Mag. Michael Pollirer (2006)
Mag. Florian Brüning (2006)
Mag. Klaus Kürbisch (2006)
Mag. Lisa Horn (2007)
Mag. Vera Dell'mour (2007)
Mag. Romana Schlöderitzko (2007)
Mag. Mario Pesendorfer (2007)
Mag. Tina Gunhold (2007)
Mag. Patricia Stamm (2007)
Mag. Andrea Szucsich (2008)
Mag. Karin Bayer (2008)
Mag. Claudia Wolf (2009)
Mag. Hanna Specht (2009)
Mag. Helene Möslinger (2009)
Mag. Melanie Krieger (2009)
Mag. Katharina Kramer (2010)
Mag. Johanna Kramer (2010)
Mag. Anna Schnöll (2010)
Mag. Anne Hloch (2010)
Mag. Verena Grabner (2010)
Mag. Karin Künstner (2010)