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04.06.2012

Ph.D. Program > Ph.D. Students > Vanessa Schmitt

Vanessa Schmitt


Date of birth
August 13, 1982

Place of birth
Trier, Germany

EDUCATION

Vanessa Schmitt

College / University
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (2002-2004)
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (since 2004)

Degree
Diploma in Biology

Major Subjects
Anthropology, Zoology, Psychology

Affiliation-Address:

German Primate Center

Cognitive Ethology

Kellnerweg 4


Germany
37077 Göttingen
phone: +49-551-3851 378
e-mail:
Further Information:
Cognitive Ethology, DPZ

PROJECTS / RESEARCH

  • Diploma thesis: Understanding of visual and auditory signals in olive baboons (Papio h. Anubis)

  • PhD thesis: Physical and Social cognition in Old-World monkeys - a comparative perspective

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS AND GOALS

  • primate cognition

  • comparative studies of monkeys-apes-humans