Dr. Marlen Fröhlich
Function: Research Associate
Universität Tübingen
Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Abt. Paläoanthropologie
Rümelinstr. 23
D-72070 Tübingen
Room 508, Hauptgebäude, 2. OG
+49-(0)7071-2976458
+49-(0)7071-295717
marlen.froehlich@uni-tuebingen.de
Consulting hours:
by arrangement
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Academic and professional trajectory
2022
Freigeist Fellow of the VolkswagenStiftung
Paleoanthropology lab, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
2022
Research & Teaching Associate
Paleoanthropology lab, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
2017
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich
2016
Postdoctoral Researcher
Humboldt Research Group ‘Evolution of Communication’, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
2016
Ph.D. in Biology
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology & University of Konstanz
Awards, grants & scholarships
2020 – 2022
Stipend of the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Foundation (CNV)
EUR 10,400
2018 – 2021
Research Fellowship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
EUR 160,947
2017 – 2018
Forschungskredit Postdoc, University of Zurich (UZH)
CHF 108,000
2017
Fieldwork grant, Stiftung Mensch und Tier
EUR 12,000
2017
Research scholarship, Sponsorship Society of the German Primate Center (DPZ)
EUR 12,600
2016
Sponsorship Award for distinguished PhD thesis, Sponsorship Society of the German Primate Center (DPZ)
EUR 1,000 plus research scholarship
2016
Pilot research grant, A.H. Schultz Foundation (UZH)
CHF 4,500
2016
Robert-Glaser Conference Grant (EvoLang conference in New Orleans, USA), Gesellschaft für Primatologie
EUR 300
2015 – 2016
Contingency funding, Max Planck Society (IMPRS-OB)
EUR 12,000
2015
Project grant, Max Planck Society (IMPRS-OB)
EUR 1,500
2015
Travel grant (Protolang conference in Rome, Italy), IMPRS-OB
EUR 400
2015
Travel grant (EFP conference in Rome, Italy), IMPRS-OB
EUR 464
2014
Travel grant (IPS conference in Hanoi, Vietnam), IMPRS-OB
EUR 900
2014 – 2015
Travel grant (IPS conference in Hanoi, Vietnam), IMPRS-OB
USD 12,090
2012
Erhard Höpfner Award for distinguished Master’s thesis, Berliner Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft & Erhard Höpfner Foundation
EUR 2,500
2010
Student exchange scholarship (Cape Town, South Africa), Humboldt University of Berlin
EUR 600 & tuition fees
2009
Travel grant (internship in Brisbane, Australia), German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD
EUR 550
Publications
Selected recent publications
Fröhlich, M., van Schaik, C. P., van Noordwijk, M. A., & Knief, U. (2022). Individual variation and plasticity in the infant-directed communication of orang-utan mothers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: 20220200.
Fröhlich, M., Bartolotta, N., Fryns, C., Wagner, C., Momon, L, Jaffrezic, M, Mitra Setia, T., Schuppli, C., van Noordwijk, M. A., & van Schaik, C.P. (2021). Orangutans have larger gestural repertoires in captivity than in the wild – a case of weak innovation? iScience 24: 103304
Fröhlich, M., Bartolotta, N., Fryns, C., Wagner, C., Momon, L, Jaffrezic, M, Mitra Setia, T., van Noordwijk, M. A., & van Schaik, C.P. (2021). Multicomponent and multisensory communicative acts in orang-utans may serve different functions. Communications Biology 4: 917.
Fröhlich, M., Sievers, C., Townsend, S.W., Gruber, T., & van Schaik, C.P. (2019). Multimodal communication and language origins: integrating gestures and vocalizations. Biological Reviews 94: 1809–1829.
Fröhlich, M., Kuchenbuch, P.H., Müller, G., Fruth, B., Furuichi, T., Wittig, R.M. & Pika, S. (2016). Unpeeling the layers of language: Bonobos and chimpanzees engage in cooperative turn-taking sequences. Scientific Reports 6: 25887.