Julia Fischer (biologist)

Julia Fischer

Julia Fischer (born July 22, 1966 in Munich ) is a German biologist, primate and behavioral researcher , author and editor .

Life

After graduating from the Odenwald School of Reform Education in Heppenheim (Bergstrasse) , Fischer studied Latin American studies , Spanish and politics for a few semesters at the Free University of Berlin , but then switched to biology , which she also took at the University of Glasgow , and was awarded a PhD study on the sounds of the Barbary macaque .

After a research stay at Harvard University and the National Institutes of Health in the USA , she worked from 1997 as a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia . During this time she researched the communication of wild baboons as director of the "Baboon Camp" in Botswana until 1999 .

From 2000 to 2004 she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig , where she completed her habilitation in 2004 and received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Since November 2004, Fischer has been Professor of Cognitive Ethology at the Biological Faculty of the Georg-August University in Göttingen and head of the research group of the same name at the German Primate Center . She gave her inaugural lecture on May 4, 2005 on the topic of "On the Evolution of Human Language".

Fischer is a member of the advisory boards of the Robert Bosch Foundation “Women in Science”, the “Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences”, the “ Young Academy ” (at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina ) and the academic working group "Manners". She has been a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 2014 . Julia Fischer was elected to the University Council of the LMU Munich.

She is co-editor and co-author of the "Campus Etiquette".

Monkey society. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2012, ISBN 3-518-42302-9 .
Categorical Perception. In: K. Brown (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. Second edition. Elsevier, Oxford 2006, pp. 248-251.
with J. Call, J. Kaminski: A pluralistic account of word learning. In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 8, 2004, p. 481.
with J. Call, J. Kaminski: Word learning in a domestic dog. Evidence for 'fast mapping . In: Science. 304, 2004, pp. 1682-1683.
with DM Kitchen, DL Cheney, RM Seyfarth: Baboon loud calls advertise male quality: Acoustic features and their relation to rank, age, and exhaustion. In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 56, 2004, pp. 140-148.

Tilman Lahme: In conversation: Julia Fischer. Interview in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 28, 2007.

personal data
SURNAME	Fischer, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German biologist, primate and behavioral researcher, author and editor, university lecturer (Göttingen)
DATE OF BIRTH	July 22, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich