David Bierbach

Guest Scientist

www.davidbierbach.com

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Educational Background

Since June 2016

  • Postdoctoral position at IGB Berlin (‘Eigene Stelle’ in DFG-funded project ‘Exploring the consequences of social responsiveness on leadership using an interactive biomimetic robotic fish’. BI 1828/2-1)

December 2015 – May 2016

  • Parental leave

August 2013 – May 2016

  • Postdoctoral position at IGB Berlin (Project: BTypes: “Consequences of animal behavioral types”, AG Prof. Dr. Jens Krause/Dr. Max Wolf)

October 2013

  • Defense of my cumulative dissertation: “Mate choice in communication networks – the role of an audience”, awarded as best dissertation in the life sciences at Goethe University in 2013

September 2011 - March 2012

  • Parental leave

March 2010

  • Start at work (PhD thesis) in the group of Prof. Dr. Bruno Streit, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main. PhD supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Plath

October 2009 - February 2010

  • Internship Zoo Frankfurt (Marketing and Communication unit)

May 2009 - October 2009

  • Research assistant (HiWi) at the BIOTA West Africa project, advisor: Prof. Dr. Karl-Eduard Linsenmair, Department of Tropical Biology, Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg

08th April 2009

  • Diploma thesis: “Die Fischdiversität im Fluss Niger und temporären Teichen (Whedos) in Malanville, Nord Benin” at the Department of Tropical Biology, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl-Eduard Linsenmair

2003 - 2009 

  • Study of biology at the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg, major subject: tropical biology/animal ecology, minor subjects: microbiology and cell biology

1994 - 2003 

  • Grammar School (“Gymnasium”), Kaltensundheim, Germany

1990 - 1994 

  • Primary School, Empfertshausen, Germany

 

Awards and Grants

2016            

  • DFG research grant ‘Funding for temporary positions for principal investigators (“Eigene Stelle”)’ for the project ‘Exploring the consequences of social responsiveness on leadership using an interactive biomimetic robotic fish’ BI 1828/2-1

2015            

  • Research grant by the „Gesellschaft für Ichthyologie (GfI)“ for the project „Invasive fish species in thermally altered freshwaters in Germany”

2014            

  • Award “Preis der Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Goethe-Universität für den naturwissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs” for my dissertation

2008            

  • Travel grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for field research in Borneo/Malaysia

 

Field and foreign experience

Spring 2016 

  • 2-weeks field trip to Tabasco, Mexico, with Prof. Dr. Jens Krause

Spring 2015 

  • 2-weeks field trip to Tabasco, Mexico, with Prof. Dr. Jens Krause

Summer/autumn 2012

  • 3-month research visit in the group of Prof. Dr. Ingo Schlupp at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA, various field trips to Texas, USA

Summer 2012

  • 1-month visit to Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, field trips with Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Schartl, University of Würzburg, Germany

Since summer 2011

  • Repeated field trips to sites with introduced feral guppies in Germany (“Gillbach/Erft”)

Summer 2011

  •  1-month field excursion to Tabasco, Mexico, supervision of students from the Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main

Autumn 2010

  • 2-month research visit in the group of Prof. Dr. Ingo Schlupp at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA, various field trips to Texas, USA

Summer 2010

  • 1-month field excursion to Tabasco, Mexico, co-supervision of students from the Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main and the University of Potsdam

Summer 2008

  • 4-month field trip to Malanville, Benin (West Africa) for my diploma thesis

Spring 2007

  • 2-month field trip to Gunung Mulu National Park, Borneo, Malaysia, work on species diversity and habitat selection of tropical leaf litter ants (Group of PD. Dr. Martin Pfeiffer, University of Ulm)

Publications

2024

2023

2022

2021

January 2022
Prof. Dr. Kurt Schreckenbach; Dr. Thomas Meinelt; Dr. David Bierbach; Dr. Klaus Kohlmann; Dr. Jörn Geßner

Standardisierung der Haltungsbedingungen in der experimentellen Fischhaltung

Versuchstierkunde kompakt. - (2021)7, 6-12

2020

2019

2018

July 2018
Juliane Lukas; David Bierbach

Häufigkeit von (sub)tropischen Arten in thermisch-belasteten Gewässern in Deutschland und Konsequenzen für die lokale Biodiversität

Treffpunkt biologische Vielfalt XVI: Interdisziplinärer Forschungsaustausch im Rahmen des Übereinkommens über die biologische Vielfalt / Horst Korn ... (Hrsg.). - Bonn, 2018. - (BfN-Skripten / Bundesamt für Naturschutz ; 487). - S. 158-163
February 2018
David Bierbach; Juliane Lukas; Anja Bergmann; Kristiane Elsner; Leander Höhne; Christiane Weber; Nils Weimar; Lenin Arias-Rodriguez; Hauke J. Mönck; Hai Nguyen; Pawel Romanczuk; Tim Landgraf; Jens Krause
hrsg. von Michael Kempkes; Juliane Lukas; David Bierbach

Tropische Neozoen in heimischen Fließgewässern: Guppys und andere Exoten in Gillbach und Erft - Ursachen, Folgen, Perspektiven

Die neue Brehm-Bücherei : NBB kompakt ; 5

 

 

2017

January 2018
Juliane A. Y. Lukas; Gregor Kalinkat; Michael Kempkes; Udo Rose; David Bierbach

Feral guppies in Germany - a critical evaluation of a citizen science approach as biomonitoring tool

Bulletin of Fish Biology. - 17(2017)1/2, S. 13-27

2016

2015

2014

August 2014
Tim Landgraf; Hai Nguyen; Joseph Schröer; Angelika Szengel; Romain J. G. Clément; David Bierbach; Jens Krause

Blending in with the shoal

Biomimetic and biohybrid systems : third international conference, Living Machines 2014 ... / eds.: Armin Duff ... - Cham, 2014. - (Lecture notes in computer science ; 8608), S. 178-189

2013

November 2013
David Bierbach; Marina Penshorn; Sybille Hamfler; Denise B. Herbert; Jessica Appel; Philipp Meyer; Patrick Slattery; Sarah Charaf; Raoul Wolf; Johannes Völker; Elisabeth A. M. Berger; Janis Dröge; Konstantin Wolf; Rüdiger Riesch; Lenin Arias-Rodriguez; Jeanne R. Insy; Martin Plath