Student projects - Behavioural Biology
- BSc- and MSc-research projects
Students are welcome to join our international research group for a short or long period. They can participate in any of our research themes for their BSc- or Msc-project, or they can work on a literature survey under supervision of one of our group members. We investigate behaviour in birds, fish, and some times frogs or humans in studies related to cognitive, ecological, and evolutionary processes. Communication, learning processes, behavioural plasticity, mate preferences, signal evolution, and ecological speciation, are only few keywords that feature in our research. We make use of a variety of bioacoustic approaches, which we typically combine with morphological, molecular, or ecological measurements. Student projects can be integrated with the ongoing research activities of staff and PhD-students, and there are often also possibilities for external projects of advanced MSc-level.
The nature of studies is highly variable and can concern outdoor fieldwork or indoor laboratory work, they can be practical or more theoretical, and they can be purely fundamental or partially applied. Interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with groups from within or outside our own institute are not exceptional, and we have had many students that went abroad for one to several months. It is important to announce your interest into joining our group for a student project well in advance. Opportunities vary with fluctuations and stages in our own research activity and especially with the season for projects outside. The peak for field work is usually from March until July and field projects are therefore best started in February. Ambitions to go abroad should be especially well-prepared and may involve applying personally for financial support. Working with animals in an experimental set-up requires a legal certificate or the intention to get one in the course of the project.
Contact person for all student projects in Behavioural Biology:
Carel ten Cate
Phone: 527 5040,
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
