Personal data

Personal data:

born 1969 in Austria

Academic career

PhD in Zoology (2001), Habilitation in Zoology (2013)

2014 - today

1999 - 2014

1990 - 1999
 

Associate Professor at the Institue of Zoology,
Karl-Franzens University Graz

University Assistant at the Institue of Zoology, Karl-Franzens University Graz 

MTA at the Department of Medical Physics und Biophysics

Main areas of research

Behavioral Ecology, Neuroethology, Sensory ecology, Collective defence

Publications:

36 papers in peer-reviewed journals; more than 60 contributions at scientific meetings

Prof. Heiner Römer

Reviewer for:

NSF, ISF, Human-Frontier Science Program, Ethology, Biomimetics and Bioinspiration, Journal of Orthoptera Research, Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, Experimental Biology, Naturwissenschaften, Hearing Research

Grants:

1. Competition and cooperation in a synchronous insect chorus
   Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2009-2013) 250.584.- €
2. Collective defence in non-myrmecophilous aphids and its evolutionary origin.
   Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (2013-2016)
   280.000.- €
3. “Bionic collision sensor for UAVs”, FFG, 09.2017 – 2018), 107.000.-€
4. "Mammobee: Reduction of mammography X-Ray dosis through bionics" (FFG: 2018-2019), 118.699.-€