Jürgen Tautz

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Jürgen Tautz

Jürgen Tautz (born October 6, 1949 in Heppenheim ) is a German university professor , behavioral scientist , sociobiologist and bee expert .

Life

Jürgen Tautz studied biology , geography and physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1968 to 1973 . From 1973 to 1974 he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . He then completed his dissertation at the University of Konstanz , where he received his doctorate in 1977; he again received a doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (1974–1977). In 1978 he received the Byk Prize of the Herbert Quandt Foundation for outstanding dissertation. From 1978 to 1981 he was a research assistant at the University of Konstanz. In 1979 he was a DFG scholarship holder at the Australian National University in Canberra and from 1981 to 1982 at Stanford University / USA. In 1986 he completed his habilitation in zoology and in 1988 he received a Heisenberg grant.

Since 2004 he has been the founding chairman of Bienenforschung Würzburg e. V. He is a professor at the Biocenter of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . Tautz has been developing and leading the interdisciplinary project HOneyBee Online Studies ( HOBOS ) since 2006 . HOBOS is an internet-based teaching and learning platform that offers access to video streams and measurement data from bee colonies. To continue HOBOS, Tautz and his team are now building we4bee , a network for environmental research and education that is being set up worldwide primarily with educational institutions.

controversy

In 2009, Tautz caused great resentment among bee scientists when he claimed in an interview that the importance of the waggle dance for honey bees was greatly overestimated. This claim was vehemently contradicted by other scientists, especially Randolf Menzel . However, this “controversy” was a misunderstanding, as he merely claimed that the information from the waggle dance was imprecise and that the bees were directed into a roughly delimited area in which follow-up stimuli direct the bees to the source of food.

Works (selection)

Books

  • with Ingo Arndt: architect - builder of nature. Knesebeck Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86873-568-0 .
  • Exploring the world of bees. New data - new knowledge. Audi Foundation, Ingolstadt, 2014.
  • Exploring the world of the honeybee. New data - new insights. Audi Foundation, Ingolstadt 2017. ( To the e-book ).
  • with Diedrich Steen: The honey factory. The wonder world of bees - a company tour. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh, 2017, ISBN 978-3-579-08669-9 .
  • with Ingo Arndt: GrasArt. Knesebeck Verlag, Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86873-881-0 .
  • Media movement in the sensory world of the arthropods. Case studies on a sensory ecology. Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1989, ISBN 978-3-437-30609-9 .
  • with photographs by Helga R. Heilmann: The honeybee phenomenon . Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, Munich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8274-1845-6 .
  • with Éric Tourneret and Sylla de Saint Pierre: The genius of the honeybees . Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8001-7999-2 .
  • with Tobias Hülswitt: The honeybee's basics: 66 x knowledge to have a say and tell further . Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, Munich, 2019, ISBN 978-3-662-58368-5 .
  • with Ingo Arndt: Honey bees - mysterious forest inhabitants . Knesebeck Verlag, Munich, 2020, ISBN 978-3-957-28362-7 .

Audio CD - Audiobook

  • The bee - the honeybee superorganism. 2 audio CDs, 144 minutes + photo booklet, (director: Klaus Sander). Supposé, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-932513-80-0 .

Awards

  • 2005: Awarded by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) as one of the best science communicators in Europe
  • 2006: Jürgen Tautz was elected Accademici Onorari of the Accademia Nazionale Italiana di Entomologia
  • 2007: Another EMBO award as one of the best science communicators in Europe
  • 2007: With the contribution "Cogito ergo summ" together with Otto Lapp from the "Franconian Day", 2nd winner in the Promega competition "Main thing biology" on the popular presentation of science
  • 2008: Jürgen Tautz received the "special discretionary prize" as part of the " EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences" for outstanding communication between science and the general public.
  • 2008: Jürgen Tautz is put on the list of the best popular science authors of the last decades by "Popular Science"
  • 2008: In the ranking of the Cicero list of Germany's most important thought leaders, Jürgen Tautz is among the 40 most prominent natural scientists
  • 2012: Communicator Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Stifterverband for German Science because he "... communicates his own work and his research area to the outside world in an exemplary manner". The jury highlighted the internet-based teaching and learning platform “HOney Bee Online Studies” (HOBOS), which has been developed by Tautz since 2009, as particularly original.
  • 2013: Jürgen Tautz and Kristina Vonend won the Promega competition, mainly biology for the popular presentation of science, with the article “Swarming bees” in the Bergsträsser Anzeiger .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waggle dance disenchanted. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 2, 2009.
  2. ↑ And yet they dance. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 10, 2009.
  3. ↑ Communication of the bees: shower flight and waggle dance.
    The resolution of this controversy and the further development of the model of dance language in honey bees is given in the chapter Route Planner in the Sea of ​​Flowers: The Bee Dance - Rethought with Old Knowledge . In: J.Tautz, D.Steen: The honey factory: The wonder world of bees - a factory tour (2017).
  4. ↑ Dance of the Workers - How bees show their state the way to nectar (preliminary version, until autumn 2019) Biology: Humming around - a new look at the language of bees . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 2018 ( online - Workers' Dance - How bees show their state the way to nectar).
  5. ↑ Press release on the award. DFG
personal data
SURNAME Tautz, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German behavioral scientist, sociobiologist and bee expert
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Heppenheim