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Dr. Judith Ingrid Korb office: |
SCIENTIFIC CAREER
Since 04/08 Fullprofessor (W3) for Behavioral Biology at the University of Osnabrück, Germany
10/04-03/08 Assistent Professor (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin) for Zoology at University of Regensburg, Biologie I, Germany
10/05-2/06 'Interim-Fullprofessorship' at the Department of Animal Physiology and Evolutionary Biology, University Würzburg, Germany
10/04-03/05 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute
for Advanced Study), Berlin, Germany
07/04 Habilitation in Zoology at University of Regensburg.
Title of thesis 'Evolution and maintenance of cooperative relationships
in termites'
09/00-08/04 Emmy Noether-Fellowship (DFG) at University of
Regensburg, Biologie I, Germany
01/99-08/00 Research Fellow at CSIRO Entomology, Canberra
& Darwin, Australia (DFG research fellowship)
02/97-12/98 Postdoctoral Fellow at Projet Biodiversité, Ivory
Coast, University of Würzburg, Germany (DAAD postdoctoral stipend)
02/94-02/97 PhD at the Department of Animal Ecology & Tropical
Biology, University of Würzburg, Germany.
Title of PhD thesis 'Local and regional distribution of the mound
building termite Macrotermes bellicosus (Isoptera, Macrotermitinae):
stochastic or deterministic? (in German)' Advisor: Prof. Dr. K.E.
Linsenmair (DAAD scholarship)
1987 - 1993 Study of Biology (Diplom) at the University of
Würzburg, Germany. Title of Diploma thesis 'Studies on the distribution
of the mound building termite Macro-termes bellicosus (Isoptera,
Macrotermitinae) in the Comoé Nationalpark, Ivory Coast (West Africa)'
(in German) Advisor: Prof. K.E. Linsenmair
AWARDS
2011 elected and entitled member of
AcademiaNet
Nov 2007 Academy Award for Biology of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Germany
Nov 2005 Award for the best 'Habilitation' at the University of Regensburg, Germany
2004/2005 Invited Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, Germany
2000-2004 Emmy Noether Fellow in the Excellene Program for Young Scientists of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
1999-2000 Research Fellow in Australia awarded by the DFG
1997-1998 Postdoctoral Stipend awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
1994-1997 Graduate Scholarship for PhD candidates from DAAD
1990 Elisabeth Becker Stipend for a field course to Tanzania
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Since April 2011 elected Educational Dean of the School of Biology/Chemistry
for 2 years
Organisation of the IUSSI Meeting of the Central European Section in Papenburg (03/2011)
Since 2010: President of the Central European Section of IUSSI (International Union for the
Study of Social Insects)
Member of the editorial boards of Insectes Sociaux, PLoS One, Nature
Scientific Reports
Co-editor of 'Ecology of Social Evolution' Springer Press, 2008
Long- and short-term field studies in Africa (Ivory Coast, Burkina
Faso, Benin, South Africa), Australia and Brazil
Research Associate of BIOTA (BIOdiversity Monitoring Transect Analysis
in Africa) WEST (BMBF Network)
Organisation of the IUSSI Meeting (German section) 2003 in Regensburg
(together with Prof. Dr. J. Heinze)
Referee for various scientific journals: e.g. Animal Behaviour;
Behavioural Ecology, Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology; Journal
of Applied Ecology; Journal of Theoretical Biology; Molecular Ecology;
Naturwissenschaften; Oecologia; Oikos, Proceedings of the Royal
Society London B