CV - Dr. Stephan A. Reber
2011-2016 | PhD candidate in Cognitive Biology (defense 3rd of February 2017) Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna Thesis title: “Production and perception of vocal signals in the Archosauria” Supervisors: W. Tecumseh Fitch, Thomas Bugnyar, Anna Wilkinson
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2009-2010 | Master of Science in Animal Behaviour Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich Supervisors: Marta Manser, Simon Townsend
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2008-2009 | Bachelor of Science in Biology University of Zurich |
2005-2008 | Basic Studies in Biology University of Zurich |
2019 | Study on acoustic familiarity discrimination in wild and captive American alligators, St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park, FL / Tom Yawkey Wildlife Center, SC USA (2 months) |
2015-2016 | Visiting researcher at the School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK, in collaboration with “Crocodiles of the World” (12 months) |
2013 | Investigation of acoustic communication in crocodilians, St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park, in collaboration with the University of Florida, USA (3 months) |
2013 | Study on social learning in wild poison dart frogs (Allobates femoralis), CNRS, Nouragues field station, French Guiana (1 months) |
2012 | Artificial Grammar Learning’ playback experiments with common ravens at the Konrad Lorenz Research Station, Grünau, Austria (1 months) |
2011 | Artificial Grammar Learning’ playback experiments with chimpanzees at the MD Anderson Cancer Research Center in Bastrop, Texas, USA (1 months) |
2009-2010 | Data collection for the Master thesis at the Kalahari Meerkat Project, playback studies with wild meerkats, South Africa (7 months) |
2008
| Field assistant (assisting a MSc student with playback experiments) at the Kalahari Meerkat Project, South Africa (3 months) |
2017-present | Lund University Cognitive Science, Lund University, SE (postdoctoral researcher) |
2016-2017 | Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, AT (statistics advisor) |
2011-2016 | Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, AT (PhD candidate) |
2015 | Contributor to the exhibition “Das Krokodil im Baum” (“The Crocodile in the Tree”), Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich, provision of audio material |
2015 | Co-organizer of the student workshop on cognition and communication “COGCOM 2015” in Vienna, Austria: Original planning, IT manager, discussion chair, official logo (design and creation) |
2009 | Contributor to the exhibition “The Tree of Life” for the Darwin year, Life Science Zurich, design and construction of displays, organization of scientific supervision |
2004 | Volunteer for ARCHELON (Organisation for the protection of Sea turtles in Greece), Crete, Greece |
2002-2008 | Member of the Volunteer team, Zoo Zurich, education, public awareness, guiding tours |
Award - Dr. Stephan A. Reber
Awards & Grants
2018
(SEK 98.400)
2015
(€ 2.700)
2014 (SFr 2.100)
2014
Austrian Ministry for Science, Research and Economics BMWFW, Centre for International Cooperation and Mobility OeAD
(€ 12.000)
2009
(SFr 1.000)
2008-2017
(Schweizerische Studienstiftung)
2004
(Natural History Society of Zurich) for the Matura thesis
CV - Dr. Stephan A. Reber
2019-present | Lecturer for the graduate course “Animal Cognition”, Lund University, SE |
2018-present | MSc supervisor of Mark Kernkamp, BSc (Utrecht University, NL) |
2018-present | MSc supervisor of Nina Thierij, BSc (Utrecht University, NL) |
2018-present | BSc supervisor of Irene Villanueva (Complutense University of Madrid, ES) |
2018-present | PhD Co-supervisor of Claudia Zeiträg, BSc, MSc (Main supervisor: Dr. Mathias Osvath) |
2018-present | Guest lecturer for the graduate course “Biology: Animal Behaviour”, Lund University, SE
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2016-2017 | Statistics advisor for the Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, AT |
2015 | Guest lecturer for the undergraduate course “Animal Behaviour”, University of Lincoln, UK |
2013-2015 | MSc supervisor of Lisa Kronowetter, BSc (University of Vienna, AT) |
2012-2013 | Supervision of Mag. Judith Janisch as a field assistant (Austria and USA)
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2010 | Supervision of Stephanie Kalberer, BSc as a field assistant (South Africa)
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Reber SA, Townsend SW, Manser MB (2010) Discrimination of close calls is related to conflict situations in female meerkats. Talk, Cooperation in mammals and birds meeting, University of Cambridge UK, 2nd of July
Reber SA, Townsend SW, Manser MB (2011) Social monitoring by close calls in meerkats. Poster presentation, Biology 2011 conference, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 4th of February
Reber SA, Townsend SW, Manser MB (2011) Social monitoring by close calls in meerkats. Talk, 6th Meeting of the Ethologischen Gesellschaft, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 18th of February
Reber SA, Townsend SW, Manser MB (2012) Social monitoring by close calls in meerkats. Poster presentation, 19th Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, Florida, USA, 8th of March
Reber SA, Nishimura T, Janisch J, Robertson M, Fitch WT (2014) A Chinese alligator in heliox: Investigating the potential for honest acoustic signals in crocodilians. Poster presentation, 9th Meeting of the Ethologischen Gesellschaft, Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology Seewiesen, Tutzing, Germany, 7th of February
Reber SA, Boeckle M, Szipl G, Janisch J, Bugnyar T, Fitch WT (2014) Territorial raven pairs perceive structural changes in duets of potential rivals. Talk, The Syntax of Mind: An International Conference, University of Vienna, Austria, 18th of April
Reber SA, Boeckle M, Szipl G, Janisch J, Bugnyar T, Fitch WT (2014) No training, just evolution: Spontaneous response to structural changes in duets by Common ravens (Corvus corax). Talk, 7th European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Prague, Czech Republic, 18th of July
Reber SA, Fitch WT (2015) Formants in bellows as honest cues to body size in alligators. Talk, 2nd European student conference ‘Behaviour and Cognition 2015’, Zurich, Switzerland, 5th of March
Reber SA, Fitch WT (2015) Formants in bellows as honest cues to body size in alligators. Talk, ‘COGCOM student workshop 2015’, Vienna, Austria, 2nd of July
Reber SA, Fitch WT (2015) Acoustic rival assessment in crocodilians? – Formants in bellows as honest cues to body size in alligators. Talk, 34th International Ethological Conference ‘Behaviour 2015’, Symposium ‘Animal Contests: Assessment and the Evolution of Animal Weaponry’, Cairns, Australia, 13th of August
Reber SA (2016) Crocodilian communication and cognition research in captivity. Invited speaker at the 2016 British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) meeting, ‘Crocodiles of the World’, Oxfordshire, UK, 13th of May
Reber SA, Janisch J, Bugnyar T, Fitch WT (2016) Juvenile American alligators discriminate between close calls of different-sized conspecifics. Talk, 8th European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Vienna, Austria, 13th of July
Reber SA (2017) Crocodilian cognition & communication. Invited speaker at the 2nd Annual European Croc Networking Meeting, ‘Krokodille Zoo’, Eskilstrup, Denmark, 7th of October
Reber SA (2018) Archosaurian communication and cognition – “only” convergence? Invited speaker at the Research Department of Neuroscience, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany, 8th of January
Reber SA (2020) Comparative Crocodilian Cognition and Communication – A window into extinct minds. Invited speaker at the Department of Bioscience – Zoophysiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 24th of January
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Animal Behaviour
Frontiers in Zoology
Current Zoology
Behavioural Processes
Ethology
Bioacoustics
The Science of Nature
Animal Behavior and Cognition
Royal Society Open Science
2010-2011 | Museum educator, Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich |
2008-2011 | Animator for public awareness activities, Ecology office of Zurich, Association “Natur liegt nahe |
2005-2007 | Zoo guide for overnight tours, Zoo Zurich |
2004-2005 | Military service in the Swiss Air force (Emmen, Luzern) |
mail@stephanreber.com
Office
Dr. Stephan A. Reber, BSc, MSc
Department of Philosophy,
Cognitive Zoology Group,
Lund University
Box 192, 221 00 Lund, SE
Orcid ID
0000-0001-8015-2538