Studying how animals learn, use information strategically, and evaluate their options
Animal Comparative Economics lab
The ACE team
Team Leader
Leads all ACE research projects, and is also involved in a wide variety of behavioural ecology projects.
Post-doctoral researcher
Studies individual and collective cognition in ants - nutritional balance, tool use, self-control, inference, and more!
Doctoral researcher
Studies how plants may be using behavioural economics to manipulate pollinators - in our case bumblebees.
Doctoral researcher
Studies how preference can be steered in Argentine ants using behavioural economics and comparative psychology. Works closely with Thomas Wagner.
Doctoral researcher
Studies how preference can be steered in Argentine ants using behavioural economics and comparative psychology. Works closely with Henrique Galante.
Alexandra Koch
Research assistant
A long-term fixture in the ACElab, Alex does... everything.
MSc & BSc students
Rebecca Paintner - BSc thesis
Indifference curves in an insect
Laura Neubauer - BSc thesis
Post-ingestion aversion in invasive ants
Stefanie Kau - MSc laboratory practical
The effect of psychoactives on liquid bait ingestion
Alumni
PhD student alumni
Dr. Stephanie Wendt
Dr. Massimo de Agro
Katharina Wenig
MSc and BSc students
Alexandra Koch (now back as a research assistant!)
St. Popp
Caroline Hübner
Jack Beckwith
Daniel Grimwade
Pragya Kumar
Stealth Human
Chiara Matschunas
Melanie Kabas
Melina Kienitz (now back as a research assistant!)
Countless 3- and 6-week practical students: you know who you are!
