Behavioural Ecology

About us

Prof. Dr. Eva Ringler

Head of the Division Behavioural Ecology

Phone
+41 31 684 91 56
E-Mail
eva.ringler@unibe.ch
Office
H 106
Postal Address
Wohlenstrasse 50a
CH-3032 Hinterkappelen

 

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

EDUCATION

05 June 2020 Habilitation (venia docendi & venia legendi) in “Behavioural Ecology” from the University of Vienna, Austria
18 Nov 2011    Dr.rer.nat. (with honours)
2007-2011 Doctorate studies, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Austria
2007 Magistra rer.nat. (with honours)
2002-2007 Diploma studies in Biology & Mathematics (curriculum for high school teaching), Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Austria

  

CURRENT POSITION

08/2020 – Assistant Professor (tenure track), Head of Division Behavioural Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland

                      

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2019 – 2020 Post-doctoral researcher
  Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
2015 – 2020 Hertha-Firnberg Individual Post-doctoral Fellowship
  Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
2017 – 2018 Visiting Researcher
  University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
2015 – 2017 Post-doctoral researcher
  Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
2011 – 2015 Post-doctoral researcher
  Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna, Austria

                                 

CAREER BREAKS

Maternity leave after the birth of my two daughters (Flora: 19.02.2014, Tabea: 20.02.2016)  

 

EDITORIAL AND REVIEWING ACTIVITIES FOR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

2023 –   Co-Editor, Behavioral Ecology
2023 –    Co-Editor, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
2023 – Co-Editor, Frontiers in Zoology
2021 –  2023    Co-Editor, Amphibia-Reptilia
2019 – Subject Editor, Herpetozoa
2011 – Scientific Advisory Board, Amphibia-Reptilia
2010 – Ad-hoc referee for more than 20 peer-reviewed journals: e.g. Molecular Ecology, PNAS, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, American Naturalist, Biological Reviews, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, Animal Behaviour, Behaviour, Ethology, Journal of Experimental Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Evolutionary Ecology, Frontiers in Zoology, Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, PloSone, Herpetological Journal, etc.

     

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

2021 –  Member, International Society for Behavioural Ecology (ISBE)
2017 – Member, The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB)
2015 –   Member, Ethological Society (EthoGes)
2007 –    Member, Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SEH) - since 2019 council member
2007 – Member, Austrian Herpetological Society (ÖGH)

                      

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

More than 30 oral presentations at national and international conferences, seminars and symposia.

 

INVITED PLENARY TALKS

08.09.2021   XVI Portuguese-Spanish Congress of Herpetology (online event) – “Parental decision making in poison frogs”
27.10.2020   SEBES Seminar for Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich (Zürich, CH) – 7th Peter and Rosemary Grant lecture
03.04.2019 ASAB Easter Meeting (York, UK) – “Christopher Barnard Award” plenary talk
23.01.2019 IEB seminar at the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK)
20.09.2017 SEH 19th European Congress of Herpetology, (Salzburg, Austria)
13.10.2015 Ecology & Evolution Seminar at Cambridge University (Cambridge, UK)

 

PUBLIC LECTURES (selected)

09.06.2021 Zoo Zürich “Poison frogs and geckos as models in Behavioural Research“
06.05.2019 “WissensDurst-Festival” (Vienna, Austria)
08.09.2018 ScienceSlam during the BeOpen Festival organized by the FWF (Vienna, Austria)
06.06.2017 Public lecture at the Aqua Terra Zoo „Haus des Meeres“ (Vienna, Austria)
10.11.2016 ScienceSlam, University of Veterinary University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
28.11.2013 Public lecture at the Aqua Terra Zoo „Haus des Meeres“ (Vienna, Austria)

 

FELLOWSHIPS

2014 – 2019 Hertha-Firnberg Fellowship, Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2011 – 2012 For women in science, L'ORÉAL Austria & Austrian Academy of Sciences
2009 – 2011 DOCfFORTE, Austrian Academy of Sciences
2007 – 2008 PhD Fellowship, University of Vienna

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

2020-2024 “Alternative parental strategies shape space use, communication, and cognition in tropical frogs”, PI: Eva Ringler
  Funded by the Swiss National Science Fund (SNSF): project 310030_197921
2019 “Sex differences in brain activity during parental care in poison frogs”, PI: Eva Ringler.
  Funded by the European Commission (RIAT-CZ open access)
2018-2023 “Animal personality and sexual selection”, PI: Eva Ringler.
  Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): Stand-alone project P 31518
2017 “With smell to success? The role of olfaction for locating deposition sites in a tadpole-transporting frog”, PI: Eva Ringler & Andrius Pašukonis.
  Funded by the ÖFFH (“Austrian research fund for herpetology”)
2014 “Behavioural Flexibility in Amphibians”, PI: Eva Ringler.
  Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project: T 699, 2015-2018    
2012-2017 “Determinants of fitness in species with complex life cycles”, PI: Eva Ringler.
  Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project: P 24788
2011 “The genetic mating system and patterns of parental care in Dendrobates tinctorius”, PI: Eva Ringler & Bibiana Rojas.
  Funded by the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France, (“Programme AMAZONIE – Nouragues Research Grant”), 2011

 

AWARDS

2019 Christopher Barnard Award (ASAB)
2017 ÖFFH (“Austrian research fund for herpetology”), Austria
2016 Gertrud Pleskot Award, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna
2015 Award from the city of Vienna “Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien”, Austria
2013 Laudimaxima, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna
2011 Ferdinand Starmühlner Research prize for Herpetology, Austria
2011 Theodor-Körner Prize, presented by the Austrian federal president
2007 Research grant, University of Vienna