PhD-Student
Current Research

• Ethology, especially of carnivores in their natural environment and in captivity
• Bioacoustics

born 1979 in Bruex (Most) (CZ)

1998 Abitur (~ A-levels), Marktoberdorf (Bavaria)

1998-2004 Dipl. Biology, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen

1998-2003 graduate assistant on the animal husbandry (monkeys, bats), Institute of zoology University of Tuebingen

2000-2001 graduate assistant on the Institute of zoology University of Tuebingen

2001 behavioural observations of african wilddogs at the Safaripark Beekse Bergen (NL)

2002 preparatory work for telemetric monitoring of leopards in the Western Soutpansberg (ZA)

2003-2004 diploma thesis about the foraging behaviour of brown hyaenas at a seal colony, Luederitz (NAM)

2004 practical as animal keeper at the Zoological Botanical Garden Wilhelma, Stuttgart; work experience as animal curator at the Zoo Schwerin

since 2005 external PhD-student at the Department of General Zoology, University of Duisburg-Essen; thesis about the activity- and stress-behaviour of small cats in captivity, Zoological Garden of Wuppertal (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. H. Burda, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Dr. A. Sliwa, Zoological Garden of Wuppertal)

since 2005 zoo guide at the Zoological Garden of Wuppertal