Barbara Koenig
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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
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Education and Professional Positions
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 - present | 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
- Evans JC., Lindholm AK., König B. (2020). Long-term overlap of social and genetic structure in free-ranging house mice reveals dynamic seasonal and group size effects. Current Zoology. Published online: 18 June 2020. DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoaa030
- Ferrari M., Lindholm AK., König B. (2019). Fitness Consequences of Female Alternative Reproductive Tactics in House Mice (Mus musculus domesticus). American Naturalist, 193(1):106-124. DOI: 10.1086/700567
- Carlitz EHD., Runge J-N., König B., Winkler L., Kirschbaum C., Gao W., Lindholm AK. (2019). Steroid hormones in hair reveal sexual maturity and competition in wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus). Scientific Reports, 9:16925. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53362-4
- Harrison N., Lindholm AK., Dobay A., Halloran O., Manser A., König B. (2018). Female nursing partner choice in a population of wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus). Frontiers in Zoology, 15:4. DOI: 10.1186/s12983-018-0251-3
- Lopes PC., Block P., König B. (2016). Infection-induced behavioural changes reduce connectivity and the potential for disease spread in wild mice contact networks. Scientific Reports, 6:31790. DOI: 10.1038/srep31790