Curriculum vitae

Scientific education and employment

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Grants

Teaching

I currently supervise one PhD student (MSc. M. Beccardi) at the Institute of Avian Research on a project on variation in individual quality in Japanese quail, and co-supervise one PhD student (Msc. R. Burke, with Dr. B. Tschirren), who is based at the University of Exeter, on a project on paternal effects in Japanese quail.

In the past I have successfully co-supervised three PhD students:

1. Dr. H. Zhang, at the Institute of Avian Research, Wilhelmshaven, Germany (with Prof. P.H. Becker and Prof. S. Bouwhuis)

2. Dr. S.M. Amininasab, at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands (with Prof. J. Komdeur and Dr. P. Korsten)

3. Dr. N. Kürten, at the Institute of Avian Research, Wilhelmshaven, Germany (with Prof. S. Bouwhuis and Dr. H. Schmaljohann)

Throughout my career I have successfully supervised 11 MSc students, from various universities:

1. Dr. E. Jongepier (University of Groningen)

2. Dr. A.M.F. Harts (University of Groningen)

3. MSc. Y. Roelofs (University of Groningen)

4. MSc. D.L. Niehoff (University of Groningen)

5. MSc. M. Ruiz Minano (University of Groningen)

6. Dr. N. Kürten (University of Oldenburg)

7. MSc. M. Bourgeois (University of Lyon)

8. MSc. C. Arvind (Imperial College London)

9. MSc. A. Kersten (University of Bremen)

10. MSc. N. Becker (University of Oldenburg)

11. MSc. K. Piening (University of Oldenburg)

Since 2022 I teach an annual 2-week practical course on Japanese quail behaviour at the University of Oldenburg. In the past I have:

• Co-supervised a 2-week field-course on common tern life-history biology at the University of Oldenburg.

• Supervised three BSc students in writing their BSc theses at the University of Groningen.

• Supervised eighteen BSc students in eight-week field-based research projects at the University of Groningen.

• Organised the practical part of a BSc course on behaviour and evolution, four times at the University of Groningen.

• Assisted in the practical part of a BSc course on ecology, three times at the University of Groningen.

• Been employed as a student teaching assistant, to assist in four different practical BSc courses (Behaviour and Evolution 2x, Vertebrate Zoology 2x, Ethology Research1x, Ecology 1x) at the University of Groningen.

Academic service

I have reviewed articles for: Nature Communications, PLoS Biology, Ecology Letters, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biology Letters, Molecular Ecology, Evolution, The American Naturalist, Journal of Animal Ecology, Functional Ecology, Journal of Experimental Biology, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Journal of Thermal Biology, Scientific Reports, PLoS One, Frontiers in Zoology, Royal Society Open Science, Oikos, Oecologia, Animal Behaviour, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Evolutionary Ecology, Journal of Experimental Zoology A, Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, Ethology, Behaviour, Current Zoology, Journal of Avian Biology, Ibis, Journal of Ornithology, Condor, Ardea, Journal of Field Ornithology and Journal of Raptor Research.

I have reviewed grant applications forthe UK Natural Environment Research Council, the Research Foundation Flanders, the French National Research Agency, the Polish National Science Centre,and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.