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Prof. Dr. Eberhard Curio
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Curriculum vitae
Date/Place of Birth: 22nd October 1932 in Berlin
University education: 1950 - 1957 Natural Sciences, majoring in zoology, Free University of Berlin; 1957 Dr. rer. nat.; title of dissertation: "Verhaltensstudien am Trauerschnäpper" (Behaviour studies of the Pied Flycatcher), Suppl. Z. Tierpsychol. No. 3, 1959
Career:
Summer 1957 Research associate at the Federal Bird
Observatory of the Land Baden-Württemberg at Ludwigsburg.
1957 - 1964 Research associate at the
Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioural Physiology at Seewiesen (Department
Lorenz).
1964 - 1967 Assistant Professor at the
Department of Zoology, Tübingen University.
1968
Habilitation at Department of Biology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; ´Dozent´
and founder of the Animal Behaviour Research Group (´Arbeitsgruppe
für Verhaltensforschung´), Faculty of Biology.
1971 -
Professor of Zoology
Research:
1950 - Comparative behaviour research
and population ecology of songbirds, with emphasis on visual mechanisms
(Enemy recognition in birds, prey recognition in reptiles), the functional
organization of complex activities, ethometry. Research trips to Southern
Macedonia (1958), Spain (1960), Galapagos (1962/63), Jamaica (1969), Panama
(1979), Tonga (1990), Fiji (1990/91), and Philippines (1993 -
).
1963 - studies on the behavioural and
morphological phenomorphism of neo-tropical hawkmoths and the measurement
of the selective coefficient of larval phenomorphs; stochastic determination
of intra-specific behavioural variation of a Jamaican lizard. Sociobiology
and life history of parental care in songbirds.
Books:
- Doctoral Dissertation (1959, Parey, Berlin, Hamburg)
- The Ethology of Predation (1976, Springer). A review of the ethology
and behavioural ecology of predator hunting strategies.
Teaching:
Physiological practical; excursion in marine biology to Italy; courses,
seminars and practicals in ´Behaviour´;
further courses in ´Zoology for Psychologists´;
´Introduction to quantitative evolutionary research ´;
´Behavioural ecology: empirics and modelling´.
Public education, lectures and seminars, e.g. ´Models in biology´ together with K. STEINBUCH on the European Forum at Alpbach (Austria).
Supervision of 12 dissertations and ca. 40 High School teacher and master's theses.
Intramural activities:
1968 - 1972 Representative of the Deans of the mathematical and natural
sciences of the Ruhr-University at the West German Mathematical and Natural
Sciences Faculties Meeting. Member of the coordination committee during
the initial build-up of the Ruhr-University as well as member of University
Parliament.
1968 � 1997 Faculty member of the Department of Biology, Ruhr-University;
various activities in councils and committees.
Extramural activities:
Honours:
1965 - 1977 serving on the Scientific Advisory Committee
of the German Ornithologists´ Society (´DO-G´),
1973 President of that Committee
1974 President of the Society´s Research Committee
1966 - 1972 Scientific Advisory Committee of the
Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Isles
1967 - Member of WWF (Worldwide Fund
for Nature)
1970 Elected member of the American Society of Naturalists.
1970 Member of German Conservation Organization (´Bund
für Umwelt- und Naturschutz Deutschland´)
1973 - 1985 Editor of ´Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie´,
now ´Ethology´.
1980 - 1996 Co-editor of ´Bird Behaviour´.
1980 - 1998 Election member of the International Ethological
Committee.
1987 - 1990 President of the Ethological Society (´Ethologische
Gesellschaft´).
1986 - International Society for Behavioural
Ecology.
1988 - 1998 European Society for Evolutionary Biology.
1991 - Member of the Society for Conservation
Biology.
1999 - Election Editorial Board �Silliman Journal�
Plenary session lectures on meetings 1970 - 1991 of the following societal
or other institutions: Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (twice);
German Ornithological Society; German Zoological Society, Sociéta
Italiana di Etologia, Association of German Biologists, European Society
for Evolutionary Biology, International Ethological Conferences (each one,
the latter twice).
1992 Tinbergen lecture of the Association for the
Study of Animal Behaviour.
1994 Member International Ornithological Committee
1995 Ornithologists´ Prize 1995 of the German
Ornithologists´ Society.
1995 - Founder and Director of Philippine Endemic
Species Conservation Project
1996 Research Award towards studies in tropical
biology of the Smithsonian Institution in Central America.
1998 - Election Member of IUCN Survival Service
Commission and its Re-introduction Specialist Group.
2000 Honorary member of Ethological Society (Ethologische
Gesellschaft)
2000 - 2001 President and co-founder of Bioresource
Conservation Trust for the Philippines (BioCon), Pandan, Antique, Philippines
2001 - 2003 Board Member of BioCon
2001 - Chair for Biodiversity, first in the
ASEAN states, assigned by EU ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation
2002 - Honorary appointment by the American
Biographical Institute: elected member of the Research Board of Advisors
2003 Election as International Scientist of
the Year of the 21st Century by International Biographical Centre (Cambridge,
UK)
2004 Election as "International Educator of
the Year" for 2004, by International Biographical Centre (Cambridge, UK)
2007 Election as "Man of the Year for 2007"
by the American Biographical Institute (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA).
Philippine Endemic
Species Conservation Project - Conservation Biology Unit,
Ruhr-University Bochum
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