Nora Carlson
https://www.noravcarlson.weebly.com
Nora is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow in the Department of Collective Behaviour at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Konstanz in Germany. She is a behavioural ecologist who specializes in group-mediated vocal behaviour like group movement and mobbing and how anthropogenic noise may be disrupting these behviours. She obtained her PhD from the University of St Andrews where she studied mobbing calls and behaviour in UK tit species. She is currently leading the vocal coordination of group movement project and is using state-of-the-art technology to track individuals in a group through time and space, recording not only their 3D position but their vocalizations as well to determine how road noise may be causing disruptions in flock movement. |
Simon Giebenhain
Simon is a Masters student at the University of Konstanz studying computer science. He developed the software we use to convert the detections by the VICON system of the infrared markers into positions for each unique individual within the imaging barn 3D space.
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Jens Koblitz
http://jenskoblitz.org
Jens is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz in Germany. He is a bioacoustition who is part of a team who specalizes in using multi-reciever arrays to localize the calls of toothed whales and bats. He focuses on sensory ecophysiology, behavioral ecology and applied ecology by using a combination of basic research and passive acoustic monitering. He designed and built the acoustic array we are using to localize the calls from the starlings in the barn. |
Mathias is the Barn Technical Specialist who is in charge of the day to day running of the Imaging Barn located in Radolfzell and soon the Imaging Hanger which will be located in Konstanz. He studied for his PhD in Germany focusing on neurobiology in mice.
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Daniel ZuñigaDaniel is the lead vet on our project at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and has provided valuable assistance in the development of the tracking backpacks for the starlings. Although Daniel currently serves as a veterinarian for the Max Plank Institute of Animal Behavior, he also has a PhD in biology. After finishing his Vet training, he decided to move his attention to wildlife research and has since studied a range of topics including vocal communication in both frogs and birds, and completed his PhD examining migration in blackbirds as part of Dr. Partecke's lab in the Department of Migration and Immuno-Ecology, MPI for Ornithology Radolfzell, Germany.
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Hemal Naik
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hemal_Naik3
Hemal is interested in exploring new ways of studying animal behavior and understanding of the natural world using advance computer vision techniques. He is part of both the Couzin lab at the University of Konstanz, and the Navab lab at Techincal University of Munich and EXTEND3D GmbH. While in Konstanz, he is working on 3D tracking and posture estimation for birds and has been working in the imaging barn developing new tools for 3D behavoural analysis. While in Munich he focused on developing computer vision methods for Industrial AR applications. In the future Hemal aims to apply his skills to conservation related projects. |
Máté Nagy
Máté is is a biological physicist who is interested in collective animal behaviour who develops and uses state-of-the-art automated measurement techniques and analysis methods to study group behaivour. He is currently the head of the Nagy lab in Hungary. Before his current position he was a postdoc in the Department of Collective Behaviour in Germany and was a Royal Society Newton Fellow in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford working with Dr. Dora Biro. Máté did his PhD in Physics at Eötvös University, Budapest with Professor Tamás Vicsek, studying collective motion and leader-follower relations in pigeon flocks and modelling self-propelled particles.
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Iain Couzin
http://collectivebehaviour.com/people/couzin-iain/
Iain is the Director of the Department of Collective Behavior at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the Chair of Biodiversity and Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz. He is the supervising principal investigator for this project. |