Barbara Koenig, Prof. Dr.
Research interests
Animal behaviour; social evolution; social behaviour; social selection; energetics and immunology of lactation; kin recognition; conservation biology; animal welfare of lab and zoo animals.
CV
Education and professional positions
| since 2020 | Professor Emerita |
| 2015 - 2019 | Secretary General, International Council of Ethology (ICE) |
| 2012 - 2016 | Managing Director, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2012 - 2020 | Full Professor in Zoology, Animal Behaviour, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2003 - 2004 | President of the German Zoological Society (DZG e.V.) |
| 1996 - 2012 | Associate Professor in Zoology, Animal Behavior, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1996 | Visiting Scientist at the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India |
| 1996 | Heisenberg Fellow of the German Science Foundation, Germany |
| 1995 - 1996 | Oberassistentin in Zoology, University of Würzburg, Germany |
| 1995 | Habilitation in Zoology at the University of Würzburg, Germany |
| 1989 - 1995 | Research assistant at the University of Würzburg, Germany (K.E. Linsenmair) |
| 1988 - 1989 | Free-lance translator of scientific textbooks |
| 1985 - 1988 | Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Basel, Switzerland (S.C. Stearns) |
| 1981 - 1985 | Ph.D. Thesis (summa cum laude), University of Konstanz, Germany (Supervisor: H. Markl) |
| 1980 - 1981 | Graduate research student at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (J.M. Cullen) |
| 1974 - 1979 | Study of biology (Diploma), University Konstanz, Germany |
Selected publications
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- Ferrari M., Lindholm AK., Ozgul A., Oli MK., König B. (2022). Cooperation by necessity: condition- and density-dependent reproductive tactics of female house mice. Communications Biology, 5:348. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03267-2
- Evans JC., Lindholm AK., König B. (2021). Long-term overlap of social and genetic structure in free-ranging house mice reveals dynamic seasonal and group size effects. Current Zoology 67(1): 59-69. Published online: 18 June 2020. DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoaa030. Cover photo
- Manser A., König B., Lindholm AK. (2020). Polyandry blocks gene drive in a wild house mouse population. Nature Communications, 11:5590. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18967-8
- Lopes PC., König B. (2020). Wild mice with different social network sizes vary in brain gene expression. BMC Genomics 21: 506. Published online: 22 July 2020. DOI: 10.1186/s12864-020-06911-5
- König B., Lindholm AK., Lopes PC., Dobay A., Steinert S., Buschmann FJ-U. (2015). A system for automatic recording of social behavior in a free-living wild house mouse population. Animal Biotelemetry, 3(1):39. DOI: 10.1186/s40317-015-0069-0