Stefanie Gierszewski
Dr. rer. nat.
Diplom-Biologin
Curriculum vitae
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Stefanie Gierszewski
Dr. rer. nat., Dipl.-Biol.
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ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT / EDUCATION
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2014 - 2020
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2014 - 2018
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2011 - 2012
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FURTHER EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
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2019
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2016
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2013
2010
2010
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2009 - 2010
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GRANTS / AWARDS
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2017
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2016
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SUPERVISION / TEACHING
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2017
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2017
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2016 - 2017
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2015 - 2018
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ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOPS / SYMPOSIA
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2017
2015
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ACADEMIC SERVICES
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2020 - today
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2016 - today
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2016 - 2018
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MEMBERSHIPS
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
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01/2020 - today
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10/2019 - 4/2020
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2/2019 - 7/2019
2013
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2011 - 2012
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2007 - 2011
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PhD candidate in the Research Group of Ecology and Behavioral Biology, Institute of Biology,
University of Siegen, Germany (supervised by Prof. Dr. Klaudia Witte)
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Research Assistant in the DFG funded "Virtual Fish Project" (Wi 1531/12-1) at the Institute of Biology,
University of Siegen, Germany
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Diploma in Biology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Thesis: “Cognitive Abilities of Malawi Cichlids (Pseudotropheus sp.): Matching-to-Sample and
Image/Mirror-Image Discriminations” (supervised by Prof. Dr. Horst Bleckmann and PD Dr. Vera Schluessel)
Volunteer at the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK)
- Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity in Bonn, Germany
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Workshop on ethics and regulations for animal experiments during the annual meeting
of the German Zoological Society in Kiel, Germany
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Summer School “Non-invasive Monitoring of Hormones” at the
IZW Leibniz Institute of Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin, Germany
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2-weeks research trip on marine organismic biology, Zanzibar/Tanzania (East Africa)
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Internship on group living of California sea lions in captivity
at the Zoological Garden Cologne, Germany
Internship on parental investment in Banggai cardinal fish at the
Aquazoo-Löbbecke Museum in Düsseldorf, Germany
Financial support of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft e.V. (German Zoological Society)
for organizing the international workshop “Discovering FishSim in 3 days” at
University of Siegen in Siegen, Germany (500 EUR)
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Travel Grant of the ISBE (International Society for Behavioral Ecology) to attend the
ISBE conference 2016 Exeter, UK (USD 700)
DAAD RISE internship provider and supervisor of an undergraduate student (Derek Baker)
from University of Calgary, Canada. Our research was published here.
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Teaching assistant in the BSc undergraduate course “Animal physiology”
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Supervision of an ERASMUS undergraduate student (Shumail B. Ahmad) from University of Manchester, UK
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Supervision of 1 Bachelor student (Janine Seuthe), 2 Master students (Maria Mastoras, Janine Gürke)
and 1 State exam student (Melissa Keil)
Co-Organizer of the international workshop “Discovering FishSim in 3 days - new software for computer-animated 3D fish stimuli for innovative research in animal behavior” at University of Siegen, Germany (funded by the German Zoological Society e.V.).
Website: https://virtualfishproject.wixsite.com/fishsim
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Co-Organizer of the symposium “Virtual reality: computer animation as tool in animal behavior research” and
a follow-up workshop at the 34th International Ethological Conference in Cairns, Australia.
Committee member of the “Association of Early-career Social Learning Researchers” (ESLR) and Editor in Chief for the society’s journal “Cultured Scene”
Reviewer for Animal Behaviour, Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Animal Behavior and Cognition
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Support of the dzg-evol mailing list of the Evolutionary Biology Section of the German Zoological Society e.V.
Association of Early-Career Social Learning Researchers (ESLR)
German Ichthyological Society
NABU
ASAB (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour)
DZG (German Zoological Society e.V.)
German Ethological Society e.V.
WWF
Graduate Assistant, Section Ichthyology, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK)- Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity in Bonn, Germany
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Graduate Assistant, Institute of Biology, University of Siegen, Germany
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Displays Curator at SEA LIFE Deutschland GmbH in Königswinter, Germany
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Full-time employee and expert advisor for small mammals in a pet shop, Fressnapf Köln GmbH, Cologne, Germany
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Student assistant at the Institute of Zoology at University of Bonn, Germany
Student assistant at the publishing company VNR Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft in Bonn, Germany
