Graduation und awards

Friday, January 23, 2025, 2:45PM: Madeleine Patra Ammar (Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture): Exploring the interplay between social learning and memory in cultural adaptation: computational approaches

Friday, January 16, 2026, 1:00PM: Nelly Helmbrecht (Department of Evolutionary Genetics): The functional impact of modern human-specific mutations in transcription factors

Friday, January 09, 2026, 3:00PM: Dominik Mačák (Department of Evolutionary Genetics): Generation and Functional Analysis of Ancient Evolutionary Mutations

Friday, November 7, 2025, 3:00PM: Mathilde Léa Grampp (Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture): Social complexity shapes signal production and complexity in wild chimpanzees and sooty mangabeys

Friday, October 17, 2025, 3:00PM: Mathieu Gilian Clarel Malherbe (Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture): Behavioral strategies of cognition in wild western chimpanzees

Friday, September 19, 2025, 3:00 PM: Marie Padberg (Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology): Early socio-cognitive development in non-human great apes: A comparative investigation of social influence on memory and belief processing across development

Thursday, June 19, 2025: Rhianna Drummond-Clarke (Department of Human Origins): Positional behaviour of chimpanzees living in the savannah-mosaic habitat of Issa Valley, western Tanzania

Thursday, June 19, 2025: Stephan Riesenberg (Department of Evolutionary Genetics): Improvement of crispr genome editing for clinically relevant targets

Friday, May 16, 2025, 1:00PM: Leonardo Nicola Martin Iasi (Department of Evolutionary Genetics): Ancient admixture: detecting, dating and characterising Neandertal admixture in modern human genomes

Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 10:00AM: Zineb Moubtahij (Former Department of Human Evolution): Isotopic insights on human diet from the Later Stone Age to Neolithic in Northwest Africa, Morocco

Friday, March 21, 2025, 3:00PM: Pablo José Varas Enríquez (Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture): Variability, resource dynamics, and the human life cycle

Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 12:00 PM: Julia Christin Prein (Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology): Rethinking Variation in Social Cognition: Gaze Following across Individuals, Ages, and Communities

Friday, February 07, 2025, 2:00PM: Yilei Huang (Department of Evolutionary Genetics): Haplotype-based Methods for aDNA Data Analysis

Friday, January 17, 2025, 1:00PM: Natalia Fedorova (Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture): Human Settlement Strategy: Studies in residential mobility and housing investments

Friday, January 17, 2025: Eleonore Rolland (Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture): Mother-offspring relationship in wild Western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus): attachment and maternal styles

Friday, December 6, 2024, 1:00PM: Vidrige Hulriche Kandza (Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture): The dynamics of Inter-ethnic cooperation in for-hire shotgun hunting in the Republic of the Congo

Friday, November 29, 2024, 1:00 PM: Julia Mörchen (Institute of Biology, Department of Behavioral Ecology): Social learning and cultural transmission in the context of migration: insights from two orangutan populations

Friday, November 8, 2024, 1:00PM: Tatiana Bortolato (Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture): Development and function of complex vocal communication in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Friday, September 6, 2024, 1:00 PM: Alina Schaffer (Institute of Biology, Department of Behavioral Ecology): From antelopes to zebras: which factors predict inter- and intra-specific variation in ungulate cognition?

Friday, June 28, 2024, 1:00 PM: Arianna Dalzero (Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture): Cousin marriage: the interplay of life-history, demography and ecology

Friday, June 19, 2024, 2:00 PM: Divyaratan Popli (Department of Evolutionary Genetics): Estimating relatedness with ancient DNA

Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 5:00 PM: Akhil Velluva (Department of Evolutionary Genetics): Clinical implementations of transcriptomics to decipher mechanisms underlying genetic diseases

Friday, March 3, 2023, 1:00 PM: Inga Dorit Bergmann (Former Department of Human Evolution): Variability and evolution of mandible morphology in Homo sapiens and its ancestors

Friday, December 9, 2022, 3:00 PM: Ilaria Pretelli  (Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture): Children Foraging and the Evolution of Human Life History

Friday, November 25, 2022, 3:00 PM: Riana Rishad Minocher (Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture): Reproducibility and Replication in Evolutionary Anthropology

Friday, November 25, 2022, 1:00 PM: Julia Regina Cissewski (Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology): Gestures and beyond: A linguistic perspective on great-ape non-vocal communication

Friday, November 11, 2022, 3:00 PM: Agnieška Brazovskaja (Department of Evolutionary Genetics): High-throughput single-cell transcriptomics on human development and regeneration

Friday, July 08, 2022, 1:00 PM: Julia van Beesel (Former Department of Human Evolution): Biomechanical consequences of variation in shoulder morphology in the Hominoidea

Thursday, June 16, 2022, 3:15 PM: Sarah Marie Leisterer-Peoples (Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology): An examination of the cooperativeness of games in the context of culture

Friday, May 20, 2022, 3:00 PM: Leveda Cheng (Former Department of Primatology): Mechanisms underlying intergroup behaviour in wild bonobos

Friday, May 13, 2022, 3:00 PM: Elena Irene Zavala (Department of Evolutionary Genetics): Reconstructing human history and prehistory using ancient DNA from sediments and skeletal remains

Friday, March 04, 2022, 1:00 PM: Ngoc-Han Tran (Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture): Information Complexity in Material Culture

Thursday, November 25, 2021, 3:15 PM, Sarah DeTroy (Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology): Apes on a Plane: Capturing and Comprehending Variation in Social Dynamics among Chimpanzees

Friday, November 19, 2021, 3:00 PM, David Reher (Department of Evolutionary Genetics): Genetic diversity in archaic humans and the distribution of archaic human DNA in present-day human genomes

Friday, October 22, 2021, 1:00 PM, Thomas Davies (Department of Human Evolution): Tooth morphology and the evolution of the genus Homo

Monday, October 04, 2021, 3:00 PM, Dang Liu (Department of Evolutionary Genetics): Human Population genetic history of Mainland Southeast Asia

Friday, August 13, 2021, 1:00 PM, Mirjam Young (Institute of Biology, Behavioral Ecology Research Group): Determinants of paternity in male vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus)

Friday, July 02, 2021, 3:00 PM, Alexandra Schuh (Department of Human Evolution): Quantification of maxillary ontogenetic processes using surface histology and geometric morphometrics

Friday, July 02, 2021, 1:00 PM, Dominik Deffner (Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture): Social Learning in Structured Populations: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches

Friday, June 25, 2021, 1:00 PM, Anna Holzner (Institute of Biology, Behavioral Ecology Research Group): The role and behaviour of southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) in oil palm plantations

Friday, May 28, 2021, 3:00 PM, Noémie Capelle (Former Department of Primatology): Evaluating and adapting camera trap distance sampling for improved biomonitoring

Friday, May 28, 2021, 11:00 AM, Stefano Lucchesi (Former Department of Primatology): The socio-ecology of intergroup interactions in wild bonobos

Friday, May 14, 2021, 1:00 PM, Maria Schörnig (Department of Evolutionary Genetics): Reconstructing ancestral and modern human gene effects on neuronal function

Friday, March 05, 2021, 1:00 PM, Lukas Bokelmann (Department of Evolutionary Genetics): Development of methods for the characterization and retrieval of damaged DNA from ancient biological material

Friday, February 26, 2021, 1:00 PM, Martin Petr (Department of Evolutionary Genetics): Natural selection and demography in ancient human introgression

Friday, February 19, 2021, 1:00 PM, Marie Manguette (Former Department of Primatology): Intersexual conflict and female choice in wild western lowland gorillas