The ACE team
Team Leader
Leads all ACE research projects, and is also involved in a wide variety of behavioural ecology projects. Collects data on occasion.
Doctoral researcher
Studies how value is perceived by invertebrates, and the effect of value perception on colony behaviour.
Doctoral researcher
Studies comparative psychology with ants as a model organism, with a focus on advanced cognitive abilities and comparative consumer psychology.
Visiting doctoral researcher
Studies comparative psychology, normally with jumping spiders, now with ants. Risk assessment, concept learning, behavioural economics.
Collaborators
Professor of microeconomics
Prof. Roiders is supporting the ACElab team with in depth insight into economic theory and practice.
Prof. Roiders is based in the Department of Economics at the University of Regensburg.
Professor of cognitive psychology
Prof. Dreisbach studies motivation and cognitive control at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Regensburg. She is supporting the ACElab team by helping design our comparative psychology and cognition experiments. See her website here.
The ACElab often offers research projects for students, from short laboratory practicals to BSc and MSc projects. Doctoral and postdoctoral researchers are always welcome, pending funding.
Postdoctoral researcher
Uses modelling approaches to understand how individual level behavioural rules affects colony-level behaviour
Interns, M.Sc, and B.Sc students
Pragya Kumar - MSc student
alumni
Caroline Hübner - post MSc intern
Birgit Brandstetter - BSc student
Isabella di Stefano - BSc student
Jack Beckwith - BA student
Anna-Lena Horsch - BSc student
Alexandra Koch - Research assistant
Daniel Grimwade - BA student
Nico Kleinhölting - BSc student
