Thomas Bugnyar

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Thomas Bugnyar (born July 12, 1971 in Eisenstadt ) is an Austrian biologist and behavioral scientist .

Life

Thomas Bugnyar obtained his Matura at the Federal High School Mattersburg in 1989, studied biology at the University of Vienna from 1989 to 1995 and graduated with a diploma as a zoologist. From 1996 to 1998 he was a project assistant at the Konrad Lorenz Research Center in Grünau . In 1999 he did community service with the Red Cross . After completing his doctorate in 2001 at the University of Vienna, Bugnyar was a visiting scientist at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognitive Research (KLI) in Altenberg . With an Erwin Schrödinger scholarship from the FWF , Bugnyar conducted research at the University of Vermont from 2001 to 2003 . With the FWF return grant, Bugnyar set up a research group at the Konrad Lorenz Research Center in Grünau. In 2007 Thomas Bugnyar was a lecturer at the University of St Andrews , Scotland . In 2008 Bugnyar completed his habilitation in cognitive biology at the University of Vienna. In 2008 he was offered a position as W3 professor at the University of Tübingen ; In 2009 a call to the University of Vienna. In 2010 Thomas Bugnyar co-founded the Department of Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna and the research facility at Haidlhof, Bad Vöslau. In 2013 Thomas Bugnyar was accepted as a member of the Young Curia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Thomas Bugnyar has been a professor for cognitive ethology at the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna since January 2013 and is head of the department for cognitive biology.

Research areas

  • Evolution of intelligence
  • Cognitive demands of social life (social intelligence)
  • Higher cognitive abilities in birds and primates

Publications

  • 1997 Bugnyar, T. & Huber, L .: Push or pull: An experimental study on imitation in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Animal Behavior 54, 817-831.
  • 2002 Bugnyar, T. & Kotrschal, K : Observational learning and the raiding of food caches in ravens, Corvus corax: Is it "tactical deception"? Animal Behavior 64, 185-195.
  • 2004 Bugnyar, T. & Kotrschal, K .: Leading a conspecific away from food in ravens, Corvus corax? Animal Cognition 7, 69-76.
  • 2004 Bugnyar, T., Stöwe, M. & Heinrich, B .: Ravens, Corvus corax, follow gaze direction of humans around obstacles. Proceedings Royal Society London Series B 271, 1331-1336.
  • 2005 Bugnyar, T. & Heinrich, B .: Food-storing ravens differentiate between knowlegeable and ignorant competitors. Proceedings Royal Society London Series B 272, 1641-1646.
  • 2007 Bugnyar, T., Schwab, C., Schloegl, C., Kotrschal, K. & Heinrich, B .: Ravens judge competitors through experience with play caching. Current Biology , 17, 1804-1808.
  • 2007 Heinrich, B. & Bugnyar, T .: Raven intelligence. Scientific American , April 2007
  • 2011 Bugnyar, T., Pika, S .: The use of referential gestures in ravens (Corvus corax) in the wild . In: Nature Communications 2, 560, doi : 10.1038 / ncomms1567 , November 29, 2011

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Profile Thomas Bugnyar ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , University of Vienna. Retrieved December 5, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cogbio.univie.ac.at
  2. ↑ University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna: LFG: Grange Haidlhof. In: vetmeduni.ac.at. Retrieved January 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Mattersburger won an international science award. In: mattersburg.gv.at. October 2, 2006, accessed January 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bugnyar, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian biologist, behavioral scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenstadt