Sabine Begall

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Sabine Begall (* 2. December 1968 in Duisburg as Sabine Mosch ) is a German zoologist .

Life

Sabine Begall was an official in the financial administration from 1985 to 1991 and attended evening grammar school during this time . From 1991 to 1996 he studied biology and mathematics at the University of Essen as a teacher. From 1996 to 1999 he did a doctorate at the same university. She did her doctorate on the subject of behavioral ecological and genetic analyzes of the social and population structure of Coruros (Spalacopus cyanus, Octodontidae, Rodentia) from Chile with summa cum laude . 1997/1998 she did research in Chile, funded by the DAAD . A research stay in Texas followed from August 1998 to October 1998 . In 2000 she became a research assistant in the Department of General Zoology at the University of Duisburg-Essen . In 2003 she received a Lise Meitner Habilitation scholarship . In 2011 she completed her habilitation on Sensory ecology of mammals . Sabine Begall chaired the session Morphology, Physiology and Sensory Biology at the Rodens et Spatium International Rodent Congress in Lublin . Begall convened the symposium Light from underground: Challenges and insights in the third decade of research on subterranean rodents as part of the 9th International Mammalogical Congress and in the same year was the main organizer of the 79th annual conference of the German Society for Mammal Studies . Together with Hynek Burda and Cristian E. Schleich she edited the book "Subterranean Rodents: News from Underground", which was published in 2007 by Springer-Verlag.

Sabine Begall evaluates as part of the peer review for the journals Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Journal of Morphology , Journal of Mammalogy , Journal of Zoology , Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Ethology , Animal Behavior , Growth, Development & Aging , Die Natural Sciences , Mastozoologica Neotropical , Acta Theriologica, and the Journal of Ethology .

Awards

Begall was honored in 2001 by the University of Essen as part of the Dies academicus for her outstanding dissertation. She received the Fritz Frank Award 2001 from the German Society for Mammal Studies.

Sabine Begall received the negative Ig Nobel Prize in biology in 2014 for a study according to which dogs orientate themselves to the magnetic field of the earth when doing their business .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jesus on toast and meat in his nose , Die Zeit Online, September 19, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Begall, Sabine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mosch, Sabine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg