PD Dr. Lorenz Gygax |
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Contact: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Life Sciences Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences Division of Animal husbandry and Ethology / Comparative Vertebrate Ethology Office: Philippstraße 13 (Building 10), 10115 Berlin, Germany |
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| Postal address: Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany |
Phone: +49 30 2093 46932
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Career
| Since 2021 | Member of the editorial board of Animal Behavior and Cognition | ||||||||
| Since 2017 |
Scientist at the Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), ⇒ in charge for the branch of Comparative Vertebrate Ethology |
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| 2012 | Habilitation: "Quantitative Applied Farm Animal Ethology" receiving the venia legendi in zoology, specifically farm animal ethology at the Faculty of Science of the University of Zürich, Switzerland | ||||||||
| 2009 - 2017 | Scientist and deputy officer for science and research at the Centre for Proper Housing of Ruminants and Pigs (Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, Tänikon, Switzerland) | ||||||||
| 2003 - 2010 | Post-Doc at the Centre for Proper Housing of Ruminants and Pigs (Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, Tänikon, Switzerland) | ||||||||
| 2002 | Post-Doc at the Artificial Intelligence Lab (Institute of Informatics, UZH, Zurich, Switzerland) on cultural transmission in individual-based models | ||||||||
| 2000 - 2002 | Statistician with brunner & hess software ag (Zurich, Switzerland) | ||||||||
| 2000 | PhD: "Group size and behavioural ecology in Delphinoidea" (Institute of Applied Mathematics, UZH, Zurich, Switzerland) | ||||||||
| 1995 - 2000 | Assistant providing statistical consulting at the Institute of Applied Mathematics (UZH, Zurich, Switzerland) | ||||||||
| 1993 - 1995 | Assistant at the Department of Ethology and Wildlife Research (Zoological Institute, UZH, Zurich, Switzerland) | ||||||||
| 1992 | Diploma thesis (master equivalent): "Hiding behaviour and hints on perspective taking abilities of longtailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)" (Department of Ethology and Wildlife Research, UZH, Zurich, Switzerland). | ||||||||
Publications
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Web of Science Google Scholar |
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Activities as reviewer
| My efforts as a reviewer are listed on Web of Science . | |||||||||
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| Since 2021 Member of the editorial board of Animal Behavior and Cognition . | |||||||||
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Animal Behavior and Cognition |
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Teaching
| I teach animal behaviour, animal welfare, behaviour of farm animals, experimental design, and statistics (mainly mixed-effects models in R). | |||||||||
Membership in scientific societies
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► ASAB | ||||||||
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► EthoGes | ||||||||
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► ISAE | ||||||||
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► IGN | ||||||||
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► SSS | ||||||||
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► FOAS | ||||||||