Maiden Name: Ursprung
Work Address: Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Veterinärplatz 1, A-1210 Vienna, AUSTRIA
E-mail: eva.ringler@vetmeduni.ac.at, eva.ringler@univie.ac.at
http://www.femoralisproject.info/
ResearcherID: F-9064-2014
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3273-6568
GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.at/citations?user=9LRYeEEAAAAJ&hl=de
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eva_Ringler
Education:
18. 11. 2011 Dr.rer.nat. with distinction
2007 – 2011 University of Vienna, doctrorate studies (Dr.-Studium der Naturwissenschaften) – Zoology;
Dissertation topic: “The genetic mating system and analyses of reproductive success in Allobates femoralis” orientated by Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Walter Hödl
29. 06. 2007 Magistra rer.nat. with distinction
2002 – 2007 University of Vienna – studies in biology and mathematics (curriculum for high school teaching);
Master thesis: “Phonotactic approach pattern in the dart-poison frog Allobates femoralis (Dendrobatidae) – spatial and temporal analysis of movement” - supervised by Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Walter Hödl
2002 Matura with distinction
1994 – 2002 Gymnasium (high school) in Bruck an der Leitha
Breaks in education:
Two years (2014 & 2016) of maternity leave
Positions:
starting August 2020 Assistant Professor for "Behavioural Ecology" at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Bern University, CH.
04/2018-07/2020 Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, AUT.
04/2017-03/2018 University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.
02/2015-03/017 Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, AUT.
2011-2015 Department of Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna, AUT.
Keynote talks:
03.04.2019 ASAB Easter Meeting (York, UK)
plenary lecture: “Parental decision‐making in poison frogs.”
23.01.2019 IEB seminar at the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK)
invited plenary speaker: “Parental decision-making in poison frogs.”
18.09.-23.09.2017 SEH 19th European Congress of Herpetology, (Salzburg, Austria)
invited plenary speaker: "Why to not study poison in poison frogs”. (20.09.2017)
13.10.2015 Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series at Cambridge University (Cambridge, UK)
invited plenary speaker: “Clever frogs? Behavioural flexibility and strategic planning during parental care in a poison frog.”
Active congress presentations:
14.07.-20.07.2018 International Congress of Neuroethology (ICN) 2018 (Brisbane, Australia)
– talk: “Parental decision-making in poison frogs”
– poster “Mapping of auditory stimulation in the frog brain using Mn-enhanced (MEMRI) magnetic resonance imaging”
25.02.2018 Southern California Animal Behavior Meeting 2018 (Los Angeles, USA)
– oral presentation: “Parental decision making in poison frogs”. (25.02.3018)
18.09.-23.09.2017 SEH 19th European Congress of Herpetology, (Salzburg, Austria)
invited plenary speaker: "Why to not study poison in poison frogs”. (20.09.2017)
28.07.-03.08.2016 16th congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE), (Exeter, UK)
– oral presentation: "Adopt, ignore, or kill? Parental decision making in a poison frog”. (30.07.2016)
12.07.-15.07.2016 8th European Conference on Behavioural Biology (ECBB) (Vienna, Austria)
– co-organizer of the symposium “Cold blooded Cognition – Perception, Learning and Behaviour in Amphibians & Reptiles”
– oral presentation: "Adopt, ignore, or kill? Parental decision making in a poison frog”. (13.07.2016)
11.12.2015 3. Workshop österreichische Tropenforschung Wissenschaft an der Tropenstation La Gamba (Vienna, Austria)
– oral presentation: "Sportliche Weibchen und männliche Angeber – Paarungssystem und Wanderbewegungen im Glasfrosch Hyalinobatrachium valerioi“
26.08.-27.08.2015 ASAB summer meeting (Lincoln, UK)
– oral presentation: "Behavioural flexibility and bet-hedging during parental care in a poison frog" (27.08.2015)
09.08.-14.08.2015 Behaviour 2015 (Cairns, Australia)
– invited oral presentation: "Mommy will fix it: Behavioural flexibility and sex-biased offspring recognition in a poison frog with male parental care" (13.08.2015)
01.12.-05.12.2014 IV Congreso Colombiano de Zoología (Cartagena, Colombia)
– invited oral presentation: “Behavioural flexibility and strategic planning in anuran parental care: Tadpole transport logistics in the poison frog Allobates femoralis” (02.12.2014)
– oral presentation: “The Genetic Mating System in the Reticulated Glass Frog Hyalinobatrachium valerioi (Centrolenidae)” (01.12.2014)
– oral presentation: “Of active females and resting males: High inter-patch dynamics in a spatially structured population of Hyalinobatrachium valerioi (Centrolenidae)” (03.12.2014)
27.09.-01.10.2013 27th international symposium “Mensch Tier Umwelt” (Litschau, Austria)
– invited oral presentation: “Where shall I bring all my kids? Kaulquappentransport bei Allobates femoralis” (29.09.2013)
22.-27.08.2013 17th European Congress of Herpetology (SEH) (Veszprém, Austria)
– oral presentation: “Tadpole transport logistics in the Neotropical frog Allobates femoralis" (23.08.2013)
04.-08.08.2013 Behaviour 2013: International Ethological Conference (IEC) & Association for the Study of
Animal Behaviour (ASAB) (Newcastle, UK)
– oral presentation: “Tadpole transport logistics in the Neotropical frog Allobates femoralis" (05.08.2013)
02.-05.04.2013 Annual Conference of the Society for Tropical Ecology (gtö) (Vienna, Austria)
– oral presentation: “Determinants of fitness in species with complex life cycles - an island experiment in the Neotropical frog Allobates femoralis" (05.04.2013)
08.-14.08.2012 7th World Congress of Herpetology (WCH) (Vancouver, Canada)
– invited oral presentation in the symposium “Poison Frog Evolution, Ecology and Behavior”: “The genetic mating system and analyses of reproductive success in Allobates femoralis” (08.08.2012)
07.07.-12.07.2010 2010 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (Providence, US)
– invited oral presentation: “Calling Activity, Territory Size and Reproductive Success in the Dedrobatoid Frog Allobates femoralis (Aromobatidae) – An Integrative Approach” in the symposium “Acoustic communication in frogs and fishes: integrating physiology, environment, and behaviour“ (08.07.2010)
28.09.-02.10.2009 15th European Congress of Herpetology (SEH) (Kusadasi, Turkey)
– oral presentation: “Population genetics and reproductive behaviour in the Neotropical frog Allobates femoralis” (01.10.2009)
15.-18.08.2009 Synposium „The use of vertebrate model systems to study social evolution“ (Adelboden,
Switzerland)
– oral presentation: “Allobates femoralis – a handy fellow for anuran socio-biology”
17.-22.08.2008 6th World Congress of Herpetology (WCH) (Manaus, Brazil)
– invited oral presentation in the symposium “Dendrobatoid Frog Biology”: “Phonotactic approach pattern in the neotropical frog Allobates femoralis: A spatial and temporal analysis.” (18.08.2008)
19.-23.09.2007 14th Congress of the European Herpetological Society (SEH) (Porto, Portugal)
– Poster: “Phonotactic Movement in Allobates femoralis”
Seminar presentations:
25.01.2017 Seminar lecture in the curriculum "Biomedicine and Biotechnology" at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
(Vienna, Austria): "The use of frogs in behaviour and cognition research"
01.12.2016 Seminar lecture in the Warkentin Lab at Boston University (Boston, US)
– oral presentation: “Behavioural flexibility and strategic planning during parental care in a poison frog.”
30.11. 2016 Seminar lecture in the O’Connell Lab at Harvard University (Boston, US)
– oral presentation: “Behavioural flexibility and strategic planning during parental care in a poison frog.”
15.09.2016 Seminar lecture at the “Institute of Laboratory Animal Science and Biomodels Austria” (Vienna, AUT)
– invited oral presentation: “Poison frogs in cognitive and behavioural science”
12.11.2015 Seminar series of the Ethology Department, University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
– invited oral presentation: “Clever frogs? Behavioural flexibility and strategic planning during parental care in a poison frog.”
13.10.2015 Invited speaker at the "Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series" at Cambridge University (Cambridge, UK)
- invited oral presentation: "Clever frogs? Behavioural flexibility and strategic planning during parental care in a poison frog"
01.04.2015 Department Seminar of the Comparative Cognition unit at the Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
– oral presentation: “Clever frogs? Behavioural flexibility and strategic planning during parental care in a poison frog.”
28.11.2013 Friends of “Haus des Meeres” (Vienna, Austria)
– invited oral presentation: “Where shall I bring all my kids? Kaulquappentransport bei Allobates femoralis”
07.06.2013 Department seminar University of Salzburg (Salzburg, Austria)
– invited oral presentation: “Determinants of fitness in species with complex life cycles: an island experiment in the Neotropical frog Allobates femoralis”
07. 07. 2010 Department seminar Yale University (New Haven, US)
– oral presentation: “Allobates femoralis – a handy fellow for anuran sociobiology”
01.07.2010 Department seminar UCLA (Los Angeles, US)
– oral presentation: “Allobates femoralis – a handy fellow for anuran sociobiology”
Public lectures:
06.05.2019 Invited Talk at the “WissensDurst‐Festival” (Vienna, Austria)
08.09.2018 Invited participant at the ScienceSlam during the BeOpen Festival organized by the FWF (08.09.-12.09.2018)
06.06.2017 Public lecture at the Aqua Terra Zoo „Haus des Meeres“ (Vienna, Austria): "Fürsorgliche Väter und aufmerksame Mütter"
28.11.2013 Public lecture at the Aqua Terra Zoo „Haus des Meeres“ (Vienna, Austria): ”Where shall I bring all my kids?
Kaulquappentransport bei Allobates femoralis”
10.11.2016 ScienceSlam, University of Veterinary University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria): “Was Börsenmakler von Fröschen lernen
können?” (What can brokers learn from frogs?)
Functions in Journals:
since 2019 subject editor, Herpetozoa
since 2010 member of the Advisory Editorial Board of Amphibia-Reptilia
Ad-hoc referee for Peer-review Journals:
Molecular Ecology, Biological Reviews, Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, Animal Behaviour, Behavioral Ecology, Ethology, Ecology and Evolution, Evolutionary Ecology, Frontiers in Zoology, Zoology, PlosOne, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Journal of Experimental Biology, Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Organisms Diversity and Evolution, International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation, Herpetological Journal.
Scientific memberships:
Austrian Herpetological Society (ÖGH)
Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SEH) ‐ since 2019 council member
Ethological Society
The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB)
Awards & Fellowships:
2019 Christopher Barnard Award (ASAB), £1000
2017 ÖFFH (“Austrian research fund for herpetology”), € 3.200,-
2016 Gertrud Pleskot Award of the faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, € 7.000,-
2015 Award from the city of Vienna “Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien” € 4.000,-
2014 Hertha-Firnberg fellowship € 223.500,-
2013 Laudimaxima 2013 € 5.000,-
2011 Ferdinand Starmühlner Research prize for Herpetology € 4.000,-
2011 L'ORÉAL Österreich “For women in science” € 20.000,-
2011 Theodor-Körner Preis für Wissenschaft und Kunst, presented by the Austrian federal president € 1.500,-
2009 DOCfFORTE (Austrian Academy of Sciences) € 60.000,-
2007 Excellence merit (University of Vienna) € 726,-
2007 Forschungsstipendium (University of Vienna) € 6.000,-
2007 Förderungsstipendium (University of Vienna) € 2.490,-
2007 Grant for congress partizipation (University of Vienna) € 350,-
2006 Excellence merit (University of Vienna) € 360,-
2005 Excellence merit (University of Vienna) € 726,-
2005 Travel grant “KWA” (University of Vienna) € 650,-
2005 Förderungsstipendium (University of Vienna) € 1000,-
Research Projects:
“Animal personality and sexual selection”
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): Stand-alone project P31518
Duration: 2018-2022
€ 404,287.-
“With smell to success? The role of olfaction for locating deposition sites in a tadpole-transporting frog”.
Funded by the ÖFFH (“Austrian research fund for herpetology”)
Duration: 2017
€ 3,200.-
“Behavioural Flexibility in Anuran Amphibians”.
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project: T699 Firnberg-Program
Duration: 2015-2017
€ 223.500
“Determinants of fitness in species with complex life cycles”.
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project: P24788-B22
Duration: 2012-2017
€ 355.383,54
“The genetic mating system and patterns of parental care in Dendrobates tinctorius”.
Funded by the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France, (“Programme AMAZONIE – Nouragues Research Grant” 2011)
Duration: 2011
€ 6.000
2009–2012: “The genetic mating system and parameters of reproductive success in Allobates femoralis” - dissertation project.
Funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and L'ORÉAL Austria
DOCfFORTE (Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2009-2011, € 60.000)
For women in science (L'ORÉAL Austria, 2011-2012, € 20.000)
€ 80.000
Involvement in Third-Party-Projects:
“Social structures in amphibians”, PI: Max Ringler
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project J3868
duration: 2016-2019
function: molecular analysis, publishing of results
“Modelling social transmission: how relationships, group size and group structure influence social learning in wild and captive corvids”, PI: Christine Schwab
Funded by the WWTF, Project CS11-008
duration: 2012-2015
own position: performing molecular work, data analysis, publishing of results
"Vergleich der genetischen Variabilität zwischen In situ und Ex situ-Populationen ausgewählter Aphanius-Arten (Fam.Cyprinodontidae)“
Funded by the Austrial National Bank (Österreichische Nationalbank, ÖNB), PI: Anton Weissenbacher (Vienna Zoo, Tiergarten Schönbrunn).
duration: 2012
own position: performing molecular work, data analysis, writing final report
„Cognition and Communication” – PhD Program, Speaker: Thomas Bugynar
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project W1234
function: co-supervision and mentoring of PhD students
“Effects of artificial tadpole development sites on population density and population structure in Allobates femoralis (Aromobatidae)”.
Funded by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France (“Programme AMAZONIE – Nouragues Research Grant” 2009), PI: Max Ringler
duration: 2009
own position: assistance in writing the application, designing experiments, performing field work, and publication of results.
“Brother where art thou callin’? Acoustic spacing and kinship-mediated site choice in a territorial frog, Allobates femoralis (Dendrobatidae)”.
Funded by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France (“Programme AMAZONIE – Nouragues Research Grant” 2008), PI: Max Ringler
duration: 2008
own position: assistance in writing the application, designing experiments, performing field work, and publication of results.
Collaborators:
Araya-Ajoy Yimen, NOR.
Blumstein Daniel, UCLA, USA.
Hödl Walter, University of Vienna, AT.
Huber Ludwig, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, AT.
Jehle Robert, University of Salford, UK.
Narins Peter, UCLA, USA.
O’Connell Lauren, Stanford University, USA.
Pašukonis Andrius, Stanford University, USA.
Ringler Max, UCLA, USA.
Rojas Bibiana, University of Jyväskylä, FIN.
Schulte Lisa, Goethe Universität Frankfurth, GER.
Walsh Patrick, UK.