Behavioral Ecology

Prof. Dr. Julia Ostner

Main research interests

  • Evolution of sociality

  • Hormone - behavior interactions

  • Primate sexual selection



Curriculum vitae

  • 1990 - 1992 B.Sc. (Vordiplom) in Psychology, University of Trier

  • 1994 - 1998 Diploma in Biology, University of Göttingen

  • 1999 - 2003 Ph.D. Dept. of Animal Ecology & Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg & Dept. Behavior/Ecology, German Primate Center, Göttingen

  • 2003 - 2005 Feodor Lynen Postdoc (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), Dept. of Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook

  • 2005  - 2010 Group Leader, Independent Max Planck Junior Research Group on Integrative Primate Socio-Ecology, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

  • 2008 - 2014 Junior Professor and junior research group leader at the Courant Center Evolution of Social Behavior, University of Göttingen
  • since 2014 Professor and Department Leader at the Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute for Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen