Current projects:
Beginning 2026
PI of Cluster of Excellence “HUMAN ORIGINS”
Since 2024
Co-I for DFG Research Grant “Primitive Action: What it is, Why it is Significant, and Applications (PrimAct)” Project number 541025663 (PI: Hong Yu Wong; also CoI: Klaus Corcilius).
Co-I for The Leakey Foundation Research Grant “Field experiment on innovation of nut cracking in wild chimpanzees” (PI: Tobias Deschner; also CoI: Simone Pika).
Past projects:
2023
Funding via WoBoGeTo DFG project for six-month guest researcher visit (Ronald Planer) to collaborate with PIs Claudio Tennie and Alexandros Karakostis
2022
Funding via the Tübingen AI Center for one Postdoc Research Fellow (2 years) to work on cumulative culture in AI (PIs: Charley Wu and Claudio Tennie)
2019
PI for DAAD PPP Australia grant awared for PhD student Li Li
2017 - 2022
PI for ERC Starting Grant - “STONECULT” project
http://sites.google.com/view/stonecult
2017 - 2019
PI for SNSF mobility fellowship with Fellow Dr. Sofia Forss
2016 - 2019
ESRC PhD studentship for Damien Neadle; with Claudio Tennie as lead supervisor
2015 - 2016
CoI for NERC Innovation Project Grant NE/M021300/1 “An Enclosure Design Tool to enable zoos to create integrated, wild-type enclosures for great apes”
2015 - 2017
PI for Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship "GESTRANSCULT" with fellow Dr. Zanna Clay
2013 - 2016
PI for ESRC Future Research Leader Grant ES/K008625/1 “Is cumulative culture restricted to modern humans?”
2013 - 2016
College of Life and Environmental Sciences (University of Birmingham) PhD studentship awarded to Eva Reindl; with Claudio Tennie as lead supervisor. In 2016 Eva Reindl was awarded the Michael K. O'Rourke Award for the best PhD publication for the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham.
2013
Collaboration visit to Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago - covered by University of Birmingham Transatlantic Collaboration Fund
2012 - 2017
University of Birmingham Research Fellowship (open competition with 2% success rate)
2012 - 2014
AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science recipient
2010
Klaus Tschira Award for achievements in public understanding of science (Biology)
2009 - 2011
Post-Doc grant from Max Planck Society
