Elisabeth Oberzaucher

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Elisabeth Oberzaucher at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Elisabeth Oberzaucher (born May 30, 1974 in Hermagor ) is an Austrian behavioral biologist . She has been researching and teaching at the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna since 2001 . She has been the scientific director of the Urban Human Association since 2015 . She researches human behavior from an evolutionary perspective. Her work focuses on human-environment interactions , communication as well as attractiveness and choice of partner .

Life

With the Matura in 1993, Elisabeth Oberzaucher graduated from the higher federal college for economic professions in Spittal an der Drau with distinction. After a year abroad in Ashtead, Surrey, England, she began studying biology at the University of Vienna in 1994 . In her diploma thesis, she examined the positive effects of green plants on cognitive performance. She wrote her dissertation entitled " Birds of a feather flock together " on the role of similarity in choosing friends.

As part of numerous interdisciplinary projects, she has since spanned the arc between basic and applied research, which she publishes in specialist journals and book contributions. In 2015 she took over the scientific management of Urban Human, a research center that is primarily dedicated to researching human behavior in urban space.

She is a member of the Science Busters . In February 2019, she was one of the four candidates for the celebrity edition of the millionaire show .

Elisabeth Oberzaucher is married.

Research activity and work

Elisabeth Oberzaucher has been dealing with different aspects of human behavior since 2000. Among other things, she deals with communication , attractiveness and partner choice as well as with topics of environmental psychology from an evolutionary point of view.

She has been a lecturer at the University of Vienna since 2001 . Since 2012 she has published the journal Human Ethology Bulletin under the auspices of the International Society for Human Ethology . In 2015 she took over the scientific management of the Urban Human research institute in Vienna. In 2016 her book on human-environment interactions was published; Homo Urbanus , published in 2017, looks at city life from an evolutionary perspective.

Awards

Elisabeth Oberzaucher received the Dolores Award in 2012 from the Society for Aesthetic Surgery. In 2015 she and Karl Grammer received the Ig Nobel Prize in Mathematics for her work on Mulai Ismail .

Publications (selection)

  • 2001: Oberzaucher E., Grammer K. Phytophilie, the positive effects of plants on cognitive processes. Homo - our origins and future, Proceedings 4th Congress of GfA, pp. 171–175.
  • 2004: Oberzaucher E. Pheromones and choice of partner - implications for reproduction. Journal of Fertility and Reproduction, 14: 4, pp. 40–42.
  • 2005: Oberzaucher E. The evolution of mind reading. In: Geißler P. (Ed.) Nonverbal interaction in psychotherapy - research and relevance in the therapeutic process. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen, pp. 143–153.
  • 2006: Grammer, K., Oberzaucher, E. The Reconstruction of Facial Expressions in Embodied Systems: New Approaches to an Old Problem. ZIF Mitteilungen 2/2006, pp. 14–31.
  • 2007: Penn, DJ, Oberzaucher, E., Grammer, K., Fischer, G., Soini, HA, Wiesler, D., Novotny, MV, Dixon, DJ, Xu, Y., Brereton, RG Individual and gender fingerprints in human body odor. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 4:13, pp. 331-340.
  • 2008: Grammer, K. & Oberzaucher E .; Darwin's problem: evolutionary aesthetics and the sense of beauty. Bulletin of the Novosibirsk University. Series Psychology 2: 2, pp. 85-97.
  • 2010: Oberzaucher, E., Grammer, K. (2010). Immune reactivity and attractiveness. Gerontology 56, pp. 521-524, doi: 10.1159 / 000265559
  • 2011: Oberzaucher, E., Keber, AM (2011). Always follow your nose ... - How smells influence our thinking. In: H. Fink & Rosenzweig, R. (Eds.) Man, Woman, Brain (pp 51–62). Paderborn: Mentis
  • 2012: Oberzaucher, E., Katina, S., Schmehl, S., Holzleitner, I., Mehu-Blantar, I. Grammer, K. (2012). The myth of hidden ovulation? Shape and texture changes in the face during the female cycle. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, pp. 163-175.
  • 2012: with K. Grammer, P. Reindl: The Future of the Internet. In: G. Kempter & Weidmann, K. (Eds.) UDay X technology for people in the next decade. (Pp. 52-58). Papst Science Publishers, Lengerich, 2012
  • 2013: Sex and Gender Differences in Communication Strategies , in: Fisher, M., Garcia, J. & Sokol Chang, R. (Eds.) Evolution's Empress, Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women (pp 345–367), 2013, Oxford University Press
  • 2014: with K. Grammer: The Case of Moulay Ismael - Fact or Fancy? PLoS One 9 (2): e85292 , doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0085292 , published on February 14, 2014, pp. 1-5.
  • 2015: Stephan, P., Jäschke, J., Oberzaucher, E. & Grammer K. (2014): Sex Differences and Similarities in Urban Home Ranges and in the Accuracy of Cognitive Maps. Evolutionary Psychology , 12 (4), 2015, pp. 814–826 ff.
  • 2017: Homo Urbanus , Springer Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-662-53837-1 .

Editing

  • Editor: Human Ethology Bulletin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contact - page at Urban Human eV accessed on February 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ Armin Assinger presents: "The Celebrity Millionaire Show" for "Licht ins Dunkel" on February 11th on ORF 2 . OTS notification dated February 8, 2019, accessed February 11, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Reproduction success " tested with a mathematical model - derStandard.at , on September 18, 2015.
  4. ↑ Human Ethology Bulletin: ISHE - Homepage of the International Society for Human Ethology , with Vol 30, No 4 (2015) , accessed on February 14, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Oberzaucher, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian behavioral biologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Hermagor