Homepage Vhf
AG Trillmich
AG Krüger
AG Bischof
AG Steinfartz
AG von Engelhardt
AG Hoffman
Department of Animal Behaviour
University of Bielefeld
PO Box 10 01 31
D-33501 Bielefeld
Germany
email: oliver.krueger(at)uni-bielefeld.de
Born January 24th 1975, married, two children
October 1994 - July 1996
Undergraduate in biology at the University of Bielefeld
October 1996 - September 1997
Master student in Integrative Biosciences, University of Oxford
April 1998 - February 2000
PhD student at the University of Bielefeld under the supervision of Prof. Fritz Trillmich, Department of Animal Behaviour. Topic of the PhD thesis: Life history strategies and population ecology of common buzzard (Buteo buteo) and goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
October 2000 - September 2003
Postdoc with Prof. Nick Davies, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
October 2003 - June 2009
Royal Society Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
July 2009 - March 2010
Royal Society Research Fellow and Proleptic Senior Lecturer, Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Bath
Since April 2010
Heisenberg-Professor (Chair) in Animal Behaviour, Faculty of Biology, University of Bielefeld
Awards and Prizes
1994
- Winner, German Young Scientists Competition
- Winner, European Union Contest for Young Scientists
2001
- Leopoldina Prize for Young Scientists, Leopoldina Academy of Science
2004
- Outstanding Young Investigator, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB)
2007
- Walther Arndt Prize of the German Zoological Society (DZG)
- Hans Löhrl Prize of the German Ornithologist's Society (DOG)
2008
- Niko Tinbergen Prize of the Ethological Society
Scholarships
1994-2000
German National Scholarship Foundation
1996-1997
Biology & Biotechnology Student Research Council Scholarship
2000-2003
Marie Curie Fellowship of the European Union
Churchill College Junior Research Fellwoship
2003-2010
Royal Society Research Fellowship
2010-2013
Heisenberg-Professorship of the German Science Foundation
Refereeing
Associate Editor: BMC Ecology
DFG, NERC, Human Science Frontier Program, National Science Foundation (SA)
Am. Econ. Rev., Am. Nat., Anim. Behav., Anim. Conserv., Auk, Avian Science, Behav. Ecol., Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., Biol. J. Linn. Soc., Biol. Lett., Biol. Rev., Bird Study, BMC Ecol., BMC Evol. Biol., Conserv. Biol., Curr. Biol., Diversity Distribut., Ecography, Ecology, Ecol. Appl., Ecol. Lett., Ethology, Evolution, Evol. Ecol., Funct. Ecol., Global Ecol. Biogeography, Ibis, J. Anim. Ecol., J. Appl. Ecol., J. Avian Biol., J. Orn., J. Raptor Res., J. Zool., Oecologia, Oikos, Oryx, PLoS One, Pop. Ecol., Proc. R. Soc. B, Wildl. Biol.
Research & Study trips
2012: Antarctica
2011: South Africa, Galapagos, Russia, Alaska
2010: Canada, Greenland, Antarctica
2009: South Africa, Russia, Alaska, Greenland, Svalbard, New Zealand
2008: Canada, Greenland, USA, Antarctica
2007: Antarctica, Chile, South Africa, Greenland, Canada, Alaska
2006: South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Comores, Seychelles
2005: Antarctica, South Africa, Cameroon, Brazil, Peru
2004: Antarctica, South Africa, Canada, Indonesia
2003: Antarctica, Japan, South Africa, Brazil
2002: Antarctica, South Africa, Tanzania, Canada, New Zealand
2001: South Africa
2000: South Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Uganda
1999: Zimbabwe, Kenya, Botswana, Tanzania
1998: Tanzania, Uganda, Antarctica
1997: Tanzania
1996: USA, Tanzania, Uganda
1995: Costa Rica, Nepal, India
1994: Uganda, USA
deutsch
