Associated staff member (currently in parental leave)
Current Research
Sensory Ecology of Orientation in Zambian mole-rats (Cryptomys sp.)
- Magnetoreception
- Visual performance
- Heat perception
- Spatial memory
Curriculum vitae
Regina E. Moritz, née Wegner
Born 11/1976 in Bottrop/Germany
1995/1996 study of prehistory, Nordic philology and folklore: Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität, Münster/Germany
1996-2002 study of ecology (environmental sciences): University of Essen/Germany
1998-1999 research project: Department of General Zoology, University of Essen (Cranial morphometry and taxonomy of common Zambian mole-rats, Cryptomys sp.)
1999-2002 student assistant: Dpt. Gen. Zoology, Essen
2000 conference Rodens et Spatium: Budweis/CZ (poster presentation)
06-09/2001 research trip: Australia and Java/Indonesia (supervision: CSIRO, Australia)
since 2002 PhD-student (Scholarship Holder): Department of General Zoology, University of Essen (Neuroanatomy and ethology of magnetoreception in Cryptomys anselli)
from 11/2003 research associate ibid.
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2005
- research project: with the Wiltschko working group,
Frankfurt/Main
- conference RIN05: Reading/UK (poster)
- conference IMC9: Sapporo/Japan (talk)
- conference DGS: Essen/Germany (talk)
- conference ASAB: London/UK
- invited speaker: Summer School Ethology: University of
South-Bohemia, Budweis/CZ
2004
- research project: with the Wiltschko working group,
Frankfurt/Main
- conference Rodens et Spatium: Lublin/Poland (talk)
- international course for postgraduates Sensory Ecology:
Lund/Sweden
- symposium evolution: Vienna/Austria
2003
- 03/2003: research trip to Zambia
- development and realization of academic series for
intellectually highly gifted children (“Life in great
depth – underground and under water”)
- conference DZG: Berlin
- workshop on evolutionary biology: Guarda/CH
- research project: with "Dr. Senckenbergische Anatomie",
Frankfurt/Main (ICC)
- workshop on evolutionary-ecological modelling, Bonn (DZG)
- national summer school for women in life sciences and
technics: University Duisburg-Essen (talk & courses)
2002
- journalistic internship in the German office of the
journal NATURE
- workshop on academic careers: University of Bremen
- conference Rodens et Spatium : Louvain-La-Neuve/B (talk)
- M. Sc. Thesis: The impact of a trap barrier system plus
trap crop on populations of ricefield rats (Rattus
argentiventer) in rice-based farming systems in West Java
- research stay (ICC): Nijmegen/NL
Interests
- neurobiology, ethology, chronobiology, consciousness
research
- anthropology and prehistory
- conservation biology, wildlife & pest management
- (scientific) journalism & word work per se
Other activities
- 2002 free-lance translator for American outdoor publisher
- 2003-2005 cultural free-lancer for Westdeutsche
Allgemeine Zeitung
- 2004-2005 Mentee within the academic Meduse Network