Fellows of the College for Life Sciences

Dr. rer. nat., Postdoctoral Researcher
Institut Curie, Paris
From Signals to Structure: How Cells Learn to Be a Tissue

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Auburn University
The Sound Engine: A New Comparative Tool for Perceiving Complexity

College for Life Sciences

Dr. rer. nat., Senior Research Fellow
Osnabrück University
Stability in Microbial Cross-Feeding: Interaction Patterns and Evolving Life Cycle

College for Life Sciences

Dr., Research Scientist
INIBIOMA (CONICET–National University of Comahue), San Carlos de Bariloche
GenoMov: Toward a Conceptual Framework Linking Avian Movement, Genomics, and Disease Ecology

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz
Rethinking Animal Culture Using Elephants as the Model Organism

College for Life Sciences

Dr. rer. nat., Postdoctoral Scholar
Oregon State University, Corvallis
Impact of Delayed Research-Ethics Investigations and Retractions on Manifestation of Erroneous Findings in the Scientific Literature

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Computational Biology
University of Bristol
The Evolutionary Roles of Extrachromosomal DNA

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Research Associate in Microbial Evolution
The University of Manchester
The Role of Regulatory Changes in Shaping the Evolvability of Opportunistic Pathogens

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Medicine and Health
The University of Sydney
Implementing Equitable Shared Decision Making for Older People in Primary Care

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Mechanistic Biology
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
On the Hunt for Novel Microbial Endosymbioses

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Microbial Ecology
University of Melbourne
Microbial Rewilding to Enhance Threatened Species Conservation

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Principal Investigator
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Campus Juriquilla, Queretaro
Mathematical Modeling to Reshape Our Understanding of Biological Systems

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Finding Organizing Principles for the Chemical Diversity of Marine Microbes

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Medical Imaging
The University of Manchester
How Can Medical Imaging Research Better Serve Historically Marginalised Groups?

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology
Auburn University
Spatial Organization in the Superorganism Nest

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Lecturer in Ecology and Conservation Biology
University of Jos
Assessment and Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services Provided by Forest-Agricultural Landscapes

College for Life Sciences

Dr., Evolution and Biodiversity
University of Konstanz
Parasite Dose and the Course of Infection: An Interdisciplinary Meta-analysis

College for Life Sciences

DPhil, Zoology
University of Aberdeen
Individuals as Particles and Species as Shapes in Infinite Spaces

College for Life Sciences

Dr. rer. nat., Biological Psychology
Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz
Digital Biomarkers for Resilience Research

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Interdisciplinary Ecology
National Centre for Biological Sciences–Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore
The Jungle Book Reimagined: Constructing Narratives on Nature and Wildlife Using Science and Art

College for Life Sciences

DPhil, Associate Professor of Computational and Genomic Epidemiology
University of Oxford
Analytical Framework for Pandemic-Resilient & Sustainable Cities

College for Life Sciences

Dr., Psychology
University of Amsterdam
The Neural Mechanisms of Blushing

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Biological Sciences
University of Melbourne
Appraising Evidence and Generality in Ecology

College for Life Sciences

Dr. rer. nat., Animal Behavior
University of Zurich (UZH)
In Situ Responses to the Rise of Inequality in Animal Societies

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Microbiology
The Rockefeller University, New York
Investigating the Role of Intraspecies Diversity in Microbial Population Dynamics

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Psychology
University of Cambridge
The Developmental and Computational Origins of Authoritarianism

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Evolutionary Biology
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Density Dependence and Disease Dynamics: A Cross-System Synthesis

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Bioengineering
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City
Towards a Mathematical Description of Health: from Phenotypical Stability to Ecological Resilience

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Physics
Center for Systems Biology, Dresden
A Solid Foundation for Spatial Network Analysis

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Theoretical Biology
ETH Zurich
Disentangling the Building Blocks of Microbial Biodiversity: a Roadmap Towards Synthetic Ecology

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Ecology
Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore
Snow Leopard on Thin Ice: Ecology and Human Dimensions of Conservation in the Indian Trans-Himalaya

College for Life Sciences

DPhil, Biology
University of Oxford
Determinants of Success in the Ecosystem of the Lungs

College for Life Sciences

Dr., Materials Science and Nanotechnology
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart
Medical Microscopic Robots for Minimally Invasive Targeted Therapies

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Biology
Bielefeld University
What Are the Imprints of Natural Selection on the Molecular Level?

College for Life Sciences

Dr., Neuroscience
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Prospects of Network Stimulation in the Brain

College for Life Sciences

M.D., Obstetrics and Gynecology
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
Dysfunctional MDR-1 disrupts mitochondrial homeostasis in the oocyte and ovary - an explanation for poor oocyte quality?

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Quantitative Biology and Statistical Physics
Arizona State University, Tempe
The Theory of Collective Decisions

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Cell Biology and Immunology
Osaka University
Quantitative Biological Analysis of Neutrophils and Nets

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Biology
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
The Deep Evolutionary Origins of the Nervous System

College for Life Sciences

Dr. med., Neurology
Universitätsklinikum Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Functional Disorders: the Cinderella Subject of Neurology

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Disease Ecology
University of Edinburgh
The Role of Circadian Rhythms During Infection

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Chemical and Synthetic Systems Biology
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Modeling Chromatin Dynamics and Cellular Memory

College for Life Sciences

Dr. rer. nat., Psychology
University College London
Towards Reproducibility: Adapting Past and Future Projects in Sleep and Memory to a Transparent and Sustainable Model of Science

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Science Communication
Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Socializing Science and Cultivating Scientifically Curious Minds

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Evolutionary Theory
University of Pennsylvania
Uncovering Core Principles of Nature's Hierarchical Organization

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Evolutionary Ecology
Emory University, Atlanta
Microbial Mediation of Folivory

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Why Do Eukaryotes Have Bacterial Membranes?

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Biology
University of Maryland, College Park
Varroa Biology and Control: a Worldwide Perspective

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Neuroscience
Lund University
Structure-Function Relationship of Dendritic Spines: Is the Striatum an Exception?

College for Life Sciences

Dr. rer. nat., Ecology
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
Sensory Ecology and Cognition in Foraging Bats: the Role of Learning

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Behavioural Ecology
Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
Male Elephant Social Dynamics: a Comparison of Sociality During High and Low Poaching Impact

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Evolutionary Ecology
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena
The Chemical Ecology of Predation

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Cell Biology
University of Exeter
Reconstructing the Genome of the Last Eukaryote Common Ancestor

College for Life Sciences

Dr. rer. nat., Ph.D., Molecular Biology
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
RNAs in Space and Time - How Ribonucleic Acid Determines Cell Organization

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Life Sciences
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Japan
The SCN, the Hypothalamus, and the Cortex: How the Clocks in the Brain Regulate Sleep and Mood

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Animal Behaviour
Newcastle University
1. A Natural History of Attention
2. Understanding Science Through Comics and Animation

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Molecular Cell Biology
ETH Zurich
Memory Storage Mechanisms in Neuronal Synapses

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Neuroscience
University of Edinburgh
Meta-Research on Animal Studies: Increasing the Utility

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Psychology
Bilkent University, Ankara
1. Disgust, Immunology, and Human Mating (empirical research program)
2. Unpacking the Philosophical Implications of an Evolutionary Perspective on the Human Mind (book project)

College for Life Sciences

Dr. rer. nat., Biology
Bielefeld University
Parental Care to Unrelated Offspring: Taxonomic Specific Perspectives of a Common Phenomenon

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Psychology
University of Groningen
Why Does Peer Victimization Get under the Skin? Exploring Physiological and Epigenetic Pathways

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Ecological Sciences
Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris
Chemosensation in the Living World and Comparison of Biological and Artificial Chemosensation

College for Life Sciences

Dr. rer. nat., Biomathematics
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
Where is the Journey of Mathematical Modeling in Molecular Biology Headed?

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Neurobiology
University of Buenos Aires
The Neurobiology of Memory Forgetting
The Brain for Everyone (book project)

College for Life Sciences

Dr., Biology
Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona
The Evolution of Genome Structure and Its Regulation

Gene Regulation and Organismal Diversity

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Evolutionary Ecology
Colorado State University
Multi-Level Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Animal Networks

College for Life Sciences

Dr., Evolutionary Biology
University of Exeter
The Ecology and Evolution of Gene Networks

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Locomoting into New Niches: Evolution and Adaptations in the Mammalian Locomotor System

College for Life Sciences

Dr. rer. nat., Quantitative Biology
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
Intracellular Scaling Principles throughout Development. Or: Why Size Matters

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Fight or Live with the Enemy: Assessing Ecological and Evolutionary Implications of Tolerance and Resistance against Pathogens

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Sociality in a Dirty World: Tracking the Evolution of the Immune System with the Evolution of Sociality

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Neurobiology
University of California, Irvine
Cortical Mechanisms Underlying the Neurobiological Substrates of Life-Long Learning and Enduring Memory

College for Life Sciences

Dr., Psychology
University of Stockholm
The Cultural Evolution of Harmful Medicine

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Biology, Theoretical Ecology
University of Bristol
A Unified Theory of Individual Variation in Collective Behaviour

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
The Evolutionary Fundament of Emergent Infectious Disease: How Diseases Shape Society

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Ecology
University of Bristol
Finding the Reciprocity Between being a Sensor and Being a Motor
Histories: Science Communication Through Fiction

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D. (submitted), Ecology
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Eating with the Enemy

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Theoretical and Computational Molecular Science
National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki
Bridging Quanta, Molecules, and Life: Theoretical Investigation of Responsive and Autonomous Behaviors of Molecular Systems

Quantum mechanical processes in biological systems

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Washington State University
Coevolution through Indirect Interactions

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Anthropology and Biology
University of Exeter
Banking on Cooperation: Testing Evolutionary Theories of Cooperation by Examining the Real-Life Cooperative Dilemma Created by Microfinance

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Theoretical Biology
INSERM U1001, Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, Paris
Variability in Individual Fitness Components

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Professor of Physics
University of Vienna
Quantenmechanische Effekte in biologischen Systemen

Quantum mechanical processes in biological systems

College for Life Sciences