Max Wolf

Research Group Leader
Department
(Dept. 4) Fish Biology, Fisheries and Aquaculture
Email
max.wolf@igb-berlin.de
Phone
+49 (0)176 56700641
Room
116

Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin

Profile
Research group
Behavioural Biology
Expertise

Behaviour, Behavioural Development, Individuality, Evolution, Theory

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2011-       Group Leader, IGB 

2009-10   Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

2009        Ph.D. in Theoretical Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 

2003-05   Studies in Biology, University of Heidelberg

2002        Diploma in Economics (Diplom Volkswirt), University of Mannheim

2000-01   Studies in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, USA

 


Awards

Christopher Barnard Award 2014 for “Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator” (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour)

Reinhart Heinrich Doctoral Thesis Award for “the best doctoral thesis in the area of Mathematical and Theoretical Biology 2009” (European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology)

“Cum laude” distinction for doctoral dissertation 2009: highest possible distinction that is given to a dissertation in the Netherlands, indicating that it is considered to belong to the top 5% of all doctoral dissertations

 

Google scholar profile 

https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=teQUO1AAAAAJ&hl=de

 

Publications

2023

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2013

December 2013
Max Wolf; G. Sander van Doorn; Olof Leimar; Franz J. Weissing

The evolution of animal personalities

Animal personalities : behavior, physiology, and evolution / ed. by Claudio Carere and Dario Maestripieri. - Chicago : The Univ. of Chicago Press, 2013. - chapter 9. - S. 252-275

2012

March 2013
Sasha R. X. Dall; Samuel D. Gosling; Gorson D. A. Brown; Niels J. Dingemanse; Ido Erev; Martin Kocher; Laura Schulz; Peter M. Todd; Franjo J. Weissing; Max Wolf

Variation in decision making

Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making / ed. by Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens. - Cambridge : MIT Press, 2012. - chapter 15. - S. 243-272
March 2013
Niels J. Dingemanse; Max Wolf

Biological analogs of personality

Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making / ed. by Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens. - Cambridge : MIT Press, 2012. - chapter 13. - S. 217-226

2011

Developing exploration behaviour

We here address one of the arguably most fundamental questions associated with exploration behaviour in biological systems: how do behavioural-experiential trajectories dynamically unfold in newly born organisms? That is, when being confronted with an unknown environment, what are the exact sequences of exploration behaviours and associated experiences that real-world organisms go through, from day 1 of their life?
Contact person
Max Wolf
Jens Krause
Department
(Dept. 4) Fish Biology, Fisheries and Aquaculture
Start
08/2020
End
07/2023
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