Current Heineman Awardee
In May 2020 Dr. Andrea Flack received the research award for scientists working in the fields of biological and biomedical research which is funded by the Minna-James-Heineman-Sitftung and administered by the Minerva Stiftung.
Research
Collective migration in a long-distance migrant: Andrea Flack aims to understand the relative contributions of inherited, environmental and social factors on migratory decisions of storks; she connects collective movement phenomena to ecological and population-level processes.
Curriculum Vitae
- since 2020 Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany
- 2013 - 2020 Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior, Radolfzell, Germany
- 2009 - 2013 DPhil Zoology, University of Oxford, Collective decision-making in avian navigation
- 2009 Diploma in Biology, Freie Universität Berlin