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Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

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Education

Since Jan. 2009: PhD student at the MPIO. Project title: "Behavioural mechanisms underpinning personality-related fitness consequences"

Nov. 2007 - Dec. 2008: Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany, Research Assistant

Jan. - Sep. 2007: Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen
Diploma thesis: Individual variation in exploration by house sparrows: Is there a hormonal basis to personality differences?

2002-2007 Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
Studies in Biology with focus on Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

2005-2006 Lund University, Sweden
Studies at the Department of Ecology

Practical experience

2008: Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen
  • Monitoring, catching and processing shorebirds in Barrow, Alaska
  • Monitoring, catching and processing adult Blue tits and nestlings in a nestbox population in Westerholz, Germany
  • Research project on genetic and hormonal correlates of exploratory behaviour in House sparrows
2006: Lund University, Sweden
  • Research project: Censusing of a rare bird, the ortolan bunting, and habitat comparison with the yellowhammer
  • Research project: Personalities in migratory and resident blue tits
Aug-Sep. 2004: Field assistance for a PhD project on Natterer’s bats in Poland

2001-2002: Association Avril, Coutances, France (Organisation for the protection of natural habitats, esp. aquatic ecosystems)
European voluntary service

Contact:

PhD student

  Eberhard-Gwinner-Straße
Haus Nr. 7
82319 Seewiesen

Tel.: +49 (0) 8157 932 - 324
Fax: +49 (0) 8157 932 - 400

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E-mail: Ariane Mutzel

Website: http://www.orn.mpg.de


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