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