Curriculum Vitae
Claudio Tennie
www.claudiotennie.de
(0049) 160-3637254
Deutscher Platz 6
Leipzig, 04013 Germany
Place and date of birth: 24 March 1976, Bad Pyrmont, Germany
Nationality: German
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Education |
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| 2009 | Göttingen University, Germany Ph.D. in Biology, with magna cum laude: "Human culture versus great ape traditions: Mechanisms of observational learning in human children and great apes" Supervised by Prof. Michael Tomasello and Dr. Josep Call Examined by Prof. Julia Fischer and Prof. Michael Waldmann |
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| 2005 | Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Participation and presentation at CEU summer school "Cultural Learning, Imitation, and Articraft Understanding: A Comparative Perspective" |
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| 2003 | University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Diploma thesis in Biology (final mark equivalent to an A) |
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| 1999 - 2002 | University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Courses in behavioural ecology, social psychology, evolutionary psychology, ecology and biometrics |
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| 1998 - 1999 | University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Second and third year courses in ecology, ethology, biometrics and philosophy of science |
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| 1996 - 1998 | Philipps University, Marburg, Germany Study of biology until in-between exam (“Vordiplom”, mark equivalent to an A) |
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Work experience |
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| 2009 - current | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Postdoctoral research fellow |
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| 2006 - current | Running studies on chimpanzees in Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Uganda (4 trips, altogether 8 months) – plus field project in western Uganda in 2006 | |
| 2004 - 2009 | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Ph.D.-student & zoo-labcoordinator at the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Centre Several studies performed on all genera of great apes |
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| 2003 - 2004 | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Research Assistant |
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| 2002 - 2003 | University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Diploma thesis on observational learning in all genera of great apes (studies performed at the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Centre) |
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2001 |
Summer field assistant for six weeks for a nightingale communication project at the Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne, France. | |
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2000 - 2001 |
University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Student assistant (6-10 hours per week) for 12 months in the Faculty of Biology
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Publications |
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| See "Publications" tab above | ||
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Invited talks |
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| 2011 |
"The Nature of Culture Symposium“ organized by ROCEEH ("The role of culture in early expansions of humans" – project funded by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences).
Tennie, Braun & McPherron: “Cumulative culture – cognitive and social prerequisites and possible material outcomes“
Seminar Series by the School of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
Tennie: “A latent solutions approach may explain great ape cultures in the wild”
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2010 |
Public lecture series ("Cognition research") at the Zoological Museum Hamburg, Germany.
Tennie: "Gibt es einen Unterschied zwischen den Kulturen von Affen und Menschen?“ ["Are ape and human cultures different?”]
Public lecture series for a special exhibition ("Ancient Elephants") at the Regional Museum of Prehistory, Halle, Germany.
Tennie: "Kultur bei Menschenaffen - neue Befunde, Theorien und Implikationen“ ["Culture in apes – new findings, theories and implications”]
“Anthropology and Ethology” Workshop. Lower Saxonian Department of Preservation of Ancient Monuments, Hannover, Germany.
Tennie: "An ape cognition perspective on early artefacts"
Anthropological Institute & Museum, University of Zürich, Switzerland.
Tennie: “The zone of latent solutions hypothesis” Annual gathering of the Scottish Primate Research Group at The Burn in Glensk, Scotland.
Tennie, Call & Tomasello: “Zones of latent solutions”
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| 2009 | Cooperative Human Robot Interaction Systems (CHRIS) workshop, Leipzig, Germany. Tennie: “An introduction into social learning” Reputation management workshop, Arhus, Denmark. Tennie: "Reputation in apes?" |
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| 2008 |
Evolution, Development and Intentional Control of Imitation (EDICI) workshop, Vienna, Austria.
Tennie, Call & Tomasello: “Cumulative culture: task difficulty and action copying”
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| 2006 |
Biology department, University of Marburg, Germany.
Tennie: “Culture in apes?” Primatology department, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. Tennie, Hedwig, Call & Tomasello: “Nettle eating revisited”
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Talks |
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| 2011 |
Meeting of the German Psychological Society (DGP) – Developmental Section, Erfurt, Germany.
Tennie: “Menschenaffenkulturen und ihre Beziehung zur menschlichen Kultur“
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| 2010 |
XXII International Primatological Society (IPS) Congress, Kyoto, Japan.
Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "Ape traditions: using latent solution experiments to determine underlying learning mechanisms" (Part of a symposium on cumulative culture organized by Christine Caldwell and Claudio Tennie)
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| 2008 | XXII International Primatological Society (IPS) Congress, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "An Improved study on action/gesture copying in chimpanzees" |
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| 2007 | 2nd Congress of the European Federation for Primatology (EFP), Prague, Czech Republic. Tennie & Call: "Social learning of tool-making in great apes and human children: the loop study." Symposium der Ethologischen Gesellschaft (EG e.V.), Grünau, Austria. Tennie, Call & Tomasello. “An experimental study on social learning of complex problem solving: the floating peanut task” |
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| 2006 | XXI International Primatological Society (IPS) Congress, Entebbe, Uganda. Tennie, Hedwig, Call & Tomasello: "Nettle eating in mountain gorillas - revisited." |
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| 2005 | Animal learning conference, St. Andrews, United Kingdom. Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "The ghosts in the fruits." Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Summer school. Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "The battery of social learning tasks". |
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Posters |
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| 2011 |
2nd Transfer-of-Knowledge conference (CompCog), Prague, Czech Republic.
Menzel, Fowler, Tennie & Call: "Leaf swallowing behaviour in captive great apes"
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| 2009 | European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, St. Andrews, United Kingdom. Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "Great ape traditions & zones of latent solutions" |
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| 2008 | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. Evaluation. Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "Do gorillas acquire nettle feeding techniques via program-level-imitation (PLI)?" |
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| 2004 | XX International Primatological Society (IPS) Congress, Torino, Italy. Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "Imitation vs. emulation in great apes" |
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| 2003 | Gesellschaft für Primatologie (GfP), Leipzig, Germany. Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "Do great apes benefit from a demonstrator in a simple social learning task?" Second International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom. Tennie, Call & Tomasello: "Push or pull revisited: How do great apes perform?" |
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Teaching experience |
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| 2010 | FU Berlin. Visiting lecturer: "Animal Culture?" Animal Behaviour course by Prof. Constance Scharff | |
| 2009 & 2011 | University of Magdeburg. Visiting lecturer: "Primate communication & observational learning". Course by Dr. Jochen Braun. | |
| 2004 - 2009 | Supervision of research assistants, organization and coordination of several studies, and guiding tours at the WKPRC (as part of labcoordinator position). | |
| 2005 - 2007 | Overseeing and organising research at the Tiergarten Nürnberg on dolphin cognition (work performed by Alenka Hribar) |
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| 2003 - ongoing |
Co-supervision of diploma theses:
Kathrin Greve (2004-2005; now research assistant at MPI EVA) Heinz Gretscher (2005-2006; now Ph.D.-student at MPI EVA) Daniela Hedwig (2006-2007; now Ph.D.-student at MPI EVA) Nadja Miosga (2009; now research assistant at MPI EVA) Claudia Menzel (2010-2011; now research assistant at MPI EVA) Matthias Allritz (2010-2011; now research assistant at MPI EVA) Victoria Walter (2010-2011)
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| 2002 - 2003 | University of Leipzig: Teaching of undergraduate course “Evolutionäre Aspekte menschlichen Verhaltens” (~ “Evolution and Human Behaviour”). Co-taught with Tobias Grossmann. | |
| 2000 - 2001 |
University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Biology
Assisted in behavioural ecology courses (as part of student assistant job)
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1998 |
Together with four fellow biology students: Development of a pedagogical concept for an ecological school trip to the Alps. We then excecuted this concept with a school class (secondary school) from Hannover. The trip took place from the 26th of June 1998 to the 4th of July 1998. | |
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1996 - 1998 |
Private lessons in mathematics and chemistry to fellow students
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Responsibilities |
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| 2009 - 2011 | Organiser of speakers for regular fortnightly labmeetings | |
| 2004 - 2009 | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. Half-time labcoordinator at the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Centre (WKPRC). Responsibilities include, but were not restricted to: supervision of studies, organisation and management of the WKPRC & communication with zoo management. |
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| 2004 - 2008 | Supervising and overseeing enrichment activities for the great apes housed at the WKPRC. | |
| 2003 - 2005 | Organiser of speakers for regular fortnightly labmeetings | |
| 2003 - 2004 | Organiser of the Animal Cognition Reading Group ("ACRG") | |
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Grants & Awards |
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| 2010 | Klaus Tschira award for achievements in public understanding of science (Biology) | |
| 2009 - 2011 | Post-Doc grant from Max Planck Society | |
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Reviewer |
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Animal Behaviour
Animal Cognition Aquatic Mammals
Cognitive Science
Current Anthropology
Folia Primatologica Journal of Comparative Psychology Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
PLoS ONE
Proceedings of the Royal Society: B Series |
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Memberships |
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| International Primatological Society Gesellschaft für Primatologie |
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