Golo Maurer, PhD, Australian National University, Canberra (2007)
School of Botany and Zoology
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT
0200 Australia
Phone: + 61 2 6125 1028
Fax: + 61 2 6125 5573
Mobile: + 44 7943 767 589
e-mail: golo.maurer@anu.edu.au
● Grants
● Diplom in Biology, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität, Bonn, 2001. Supervisors: Prof CM Naumann and Dr RD Magrath.
Awards
● Best Talk, Conference of the Edward Grey Institute of Field-Ornithology, Oxford. 2008
● Best Talk, 32nd Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour Conference, Palmerston North, 2005
● Best poster, 2nd National Institue of Bioscience Conference, Canberra, 2004
● Best poster, University of Newcastle u. Tyne, Postgraduate Conference, 2004
● ANU Botany and Zoology postgraduate students conference 2003: Best preliminary student talk
Scholarships
● International Postgraduate Research Scholarship of the Commonwealth of Australia.
● PhD Scholarship of the Australian National University.
● Direct Exchange Programme Scholarship of the University of Bonn to study for one year at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada.
Grants (see Funding page)
Presentation of my work
Conference presentations
● Conference of the Edward Grey Institute of Field-Ornithology, Oxford. 2008
● 3rd Annual Botany and Zoology post-gradudate students conference, ANU, Canberra, 2005. Talk: “Oddballs of the birdworld”
● 32nd Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour Conference, Palmerston North, 2005. Talk: “Oddballs of the birdworld”
● 2nd National Institute of Bioscience Conference, Canberra, 2004. Poster “Do coucals have the balls to breed?”
● 10th Congress of the International Society for Behavioural Ecology, Jyväskylä, Finland, 2004.Poster “Do coucals have the balls to breed?”
● University of Newcastle upon Tyne, postgraduate conference, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2003. Poster “Do coucals have the balls to breed?”
● 1st National Institute of Bioscience Conference, Canberra, 2003. Talk “Do male coucals have the balls to breed? ”
● 2nd Biennial Australasian Ornithologists Conference, Canberra, 2003. Talk “Do male coucals have the balls to breed? A single functional testis is unlikely to be an adaptation for male parental care in the pheasant coucal (Centropus phasianinus)”
● 1st Annual Botany and Zoology post-gradudate students conference, ANU, Canberra, 2003. “Frailty thy name is man: Ecology and evolution of sex role reversal in the pheasant coucal"
● 94th Annual Conference of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft, Osnabrück, 2001. “Paradoxical begging response to parental alarm calls in nestling white-browed scrubwrens (Sericornis frontalis)”
● 28th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Brisbane, 2001. “Paradoxical begging behaviour of Nestling white-browed Scrubwrens”
● Queen Mary University of London: Unusual sex roles in a non parasitic cuckoo
● Bogor Agricultural University. Evolution of sex-roles in the pheasant coucal 2008
● Darwin Field Naturalists Club, 2005: “Oddballs of the bird world”
● University of Canberra, Applied Ecology Research Group Seminar, 2005: “Oddballs of the bird world”
● Canberra Ornithologists Group, 2005: “Breeding eccentricities in pheasant coucals”
● Charles Darwin University, Faculty of Education, Health and Science, 2004: Breeding eccentricities in pheasant coucals
● Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Capetown, South Africa, 2004: Oddballs of the bird world
● Max-Planck-Institute of Behavioural Physiology, Seewiesen, Germany, 2004: Oddballs of the bird world
● University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2004: Oddballs of the bird world
● Northumberland and Tyneside Birdclub, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2004: Breeding eccentricities in the Pheasant Coucal
● Cambridge University, Institute of Zoology, 2004. Frailty thy Name is Man: Evolution and ecology of the sex-role reversed Pheasant coucals
● MPI of Behvioural Physiology, Seewiesen, Germany 2003: Begging to differ: Scrubwren nestling reduce begging after parental alarm calls.
● Max-Planck-Institute for Limnology. Ploen, Germany, 2002: Studying life histories of Southern Birds
● 1st Annual Botany and Zoology post-gradudate students conference, ANU, Canberra, 16th & 17th of June 2003.
● 3rd Annual Botany and Zoology post-gradudate students conference, ANU, Canberra, 7th & 8th of July 2005.
Memberships in scientific organisations
● Naturschutzbund Deutschland (Nature Conservation Club, Germany)
● Deutsche Ornithologen Gesellschaft (German Ornithologists Society)
● Deutsche Zoologen Gesellschaft (German Zoologists Society)
● Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
● Southern Oceans Seabird Study Association
● Canberra Ornithologists Group
● Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour
● Birds Australia
● Northern Territory Field Naturalists
● Oriental Bird Club
Reviewing
● Animal Behaviour
● BirdLife International
● Professional Translator from English to German accredited by the National Acreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI# 50299)
● Parasol Senior First Aid Certificate
● ANU Statitsical Consulting Unit, Graduate course: Statistical methods for research in the life siences.
● Bird Banding Authority (Class 3A) by the Australian Bat and Bird Banding Scheme.The holder of this license may run his own project, using mist-netting and basic trapping techniques, and supervise C-class banders.