Julia Fischer PhD

Julia Fischer obtained her PhD from the FU Berlin in 1996. After postdocs at the University of Pennsylvania and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, she was jointly appointed as professor at the University of Göttingen and the German Primate Center, where she heads the Cognitive Ethology Laboratory. Her research centers on the vocal communication, cognition and social behavior of nonhuman primates. She is the speaker of the Leibniz ScienceCampus on Primate Cognition, and member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science as well as the Göttingen Academy of Science. In 2013, she received the Grüter-Prize for Science Communication.