Staff
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Ludwig Huber
Phone: ++43 1 4277 54480
Fax: ++43 1 4277 54480
Mobile: ++43 664 60277 54480
Email: 
ludwig.huber@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
Email: ulrike.aust@univie.ac.at
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"
Email: gyula.gajdon@univie.ac.at
Dr. Friederike Range
FWF-Project P21244: "Cognitive tools and emotional context in the development of canine cooperation"
Email: friederike.range@univie.ac.at
Dipl.-Biol. Dr. Hans Christian Schlögl - at the KLF Grünau
FWF-Project P20538-B17: "Are reasoning abilities general or task-specific in brainy birds? A comparative approach to the cognition of corvids and parrots"
See: http://www.klf.ac.at/Research/reasoning.htm
E-Mail: christian.schloegl@univie.ac.at
Dr. Sabine Tebbich
FWF-Project V95-B17 (Elise Richter): "Cognitive adaptations in tool-using birds"
Email: sabine.tebbich@univie.ac.at
Dr. Anna Wilkinson
FWF-Project P19574: "Becoming a visual expert"
Email: a.wilkinson@psych.york.ac.uk
Doctoral candidates
Gesche Westphal Fitch
"Processing of hierarchical structures in animals and humans"
Email: gesche.w.fitch@univie.ac.at
Lic. Rodrigo Abril de Abreu (Lisbon)
"Cognitive mechanisms underlying cooperation in Canids"
Email: abril.rodrigo@gmail.com
Mag. Tina Gunhold
"Transmission of information and tradition formation in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)"
Email: tina.gunhold@univie.ac.at
Mag. Markus Böckle
"Vocal Communication in Ravens"
Email: markus.boeckle@univie.ac.at
Dipl. Biol. Claudia Stephan
FWF-Projekt P20240: "The role of stimulus quality in picture-object recognition by pigeons"
Email: claudia.stephan@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
Alice von Bayern, B.Sc
FWF-Project P19087: "The Interrelation of Social Learning and Physical Cognition in Kea"
Email: alice_bayern@hotmail.com
Dipl. Biol. Anna Braun - at the KLF Grünau
FWF-Project Y366-B17: "START PREIS"
Mag. Cornelia Schrauf
DOC/FORTE-Project: "Reasoning about weight in chimpanzees and human infants (2-3 years old): A comparative study"
Email: conny.schrauf@chello.at
Mag. Michael Steurer
"A statistical approach to the analysis of animal behaviour in multiple matching experiments"
Email: michael.steurer@univie.ac.at
MMag. Wilfried Apfalter
"Categorical versus dimensional perception of familiar human faces by pigeons"
Email: wilfried.apfalter@univie.ac.at
Students working for Diploma (M.Sc.)
- Johanna Kramer (Perception of rotating objects by pigeons)
- Katharina Kramer (Rapid categorization in pigeons)
- 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)
- Karin Leitner (Cooperation in dogs)
- Hanna Specht (Familiarity in the Pigeon (Columba livia): Does a pigeon know who he knows?)
- Verena Grabner (Influence of familiarity with a category on picture-object-recognition in pigeons)
- Denise Kurz (Discriminative touchscreenexperiments in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus))
- Johanna Nobis (Learning about food quality in a social condition: Can Common Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) intentionally control their scrounging behaviour?)
- Karin Künstner (Social learning in a non-social reptile species: Can a tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria) learn from the actions of a conspecific?)
- Birgit Trawöger (The matching-to-sample task in dogs)
- Mark O´Hara (Reversal Learning in the Kea (Nestor notabilis): Comparing the Touchscreen to a Reality-Approach)
- Anne Hloch (Effects of hibernation on memory retention in a spatial task in the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra)
Technical staff
Associated researchers
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Kurt Kotrschal
(Konrad Lorenz Research Station Gruenau)
Dr. Zsofia Viranyi
(Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research)
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)
- 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. Helene Möslinger (2009)
Universität Wien
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