Jens Krause (behavioral scientist)

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Jens Krause (* 1965 in Berlin ) is a German behavioral biologist who is primarily concerned with research into swarm intelligence .

Life

Jens Krause studied from 1985 to 1990 at the Free University of Berlin and graduated with a diploma ; In 1989 he also obtained an M.Phil. at Queens' College of the University of Cambridge . He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from St John's College, University of Cambridge. PhD . He was then a post-doctoral student of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) at Mount Allison University until 1995, a post-doctoral student of BASF at Princeton University in 1995/1996 and at the University of Leeds in 1996/1997 . At the University of Leeds he was Lecturer until 2002 and Senior Lecturer and Reader in Behavioral Ecology until 2004 . In 2004 he was appointed professor at this university . Since 2009 he has been Professor of Fish Ecology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He heads the Department of Fish Biology and Ecology at the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). In 2014 he was elected as a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Jens Krause has published over 100 papers in scientific journals. He is an associate editor of the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology and a member of the editorial board of the journal Fish and Fisheries . He worked on several television productions for ARD , ZDF and the Discovery Channel .

Jens Krause lives in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

Fonts

  • with Iain D. Couzin, Nigel R. Franks, Simon A. Levin: Effective leadership and decision-making in animal groups on the move. In: Nature . Volume 433, 2005, pp. 513-516.
  • with Dominic Wright: Repeated Measures of Shoaling Tendency in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and other Small Teleost Fishes. In: Nature Protocols. Volume 4, 2006, pp. 1828-1831.
  • with Marc S. Botham, CJ Kerfoot, V. Louca: The effects of different predator species on antipredator behavior in the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata. In: The natural sciences . Volume 93, 2006, pp. 431-439, doi : 10.1007 / s00114-006-0131-0 .
  • with David Sumpter, R. James, Iain D. Couzin, Ashley Ward: Consensus decision-making by fish. In: Current Biology . Volume 18, 2008, pp. 1773-1777.
  • with Ashley Ward, David Sumpter, Iain D. Couzin, Paul J. Hart: Quorum decision-making facilitates information transfer in fish shoals. In: PNAS . Volume 105, 2008, pp. 6948-6953.
  • with Colin R. Tosh, Graeme D. Ruxton: Theoretical predictions strongly support decision accuracy as a major driver of ecological specialization. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Volume 106, 2008, pp. 5698-5702.
  • with John R. Dyer, Anders Johansson, Dirk Helbing, Iain D. Couzin: Leadership, consensus decision making and collective behavior in human crowds. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society . Volume 364, 2009, pp. 781-789, doi : 10.1098 / rstb.2008.0233 .
  • with Graeme D. Ruxton, Stefan Krause: Swarm intelligence in animals and humans. In: Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Volume 25, No. 1, January 2010, pp. 28-34, doi : 10.1016 / j.tree.2009.06.016 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The man who loves fish. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . October 30, 2009, accessed January 21, 2016
  2. ↑ Jens Krause on the website of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, accessed on January 21, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German behavioral biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin