Ludwig Huber (biologist)

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Ludwig Huber (born July 25, 1964 in Neunkirchen , Lower Austria ) is a behavioral biologist , cognitive scientist and university professor at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna .

Life

Huber studied biology, philosophy and philosophy of science in Vienna and became an assistant to Rupert Riedl . Huber received his doctorate in 1991 and completed his habilitation in 2000 at the University of Vienna . He specialized in the investigation of the perceptual and cognitive abilities of animals and worked with different species such as pigeons, keas , dogs and marmosets . Between 1995 and 2003 he was also the deputy head of the theoretical biology department at the Institute of Zoology at the University of Vienna. In 2005 he established the research focus on cognitive biology at the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna.

Since 2010 he has headed the Department for Cognitive Biology, which he co-founded, at the University of Vienna; Since October 2011, he has been professor for the scientific principles of animal welfare and human-animal relationships, head of the comparative cognitive research focus at the Messerli Institute for Human-Animal Relationships , which is located at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna. In the same year he was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Physiology together with three co-authors .

Huber is a member of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg near Vienna and has been a visiting professor at the Charles University in Prague since 2005 .

Fonts

  • Shape, concepts and non-verbal terms. A comparative study of deaf and human categorization. Dissertation, Vienna 1991.
  • Visual categorization in pigeons. Habilitation thesis, Vienna 2000.
  • How the new comes into the world. Phase transitions in nature and culture. WUV, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85114-549-6 . - as editor

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Huber and the “Clever Dog Lab” are moving to Vetmed
  2. ↑ University of Veterinary Medicine: Ludwig Huber takes up the Messerli professorship for the scientific principles of animal welfare and human-animal relationships
  3. ↑ The animal and morality.
  4. ↑ Improbable Research. In: improbable.com. Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian behavioral biologist and cognitive researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen , Lower Austria