IMPRS Upcoming PhD Projects PhD Projects 2017 PhD Projects 2017 This is the list of our 2017 PhD projects. All projects are fully funded for at least 3 years. Two PhD positions studying the ecology and evolution of animal culture Keywords Darwinian evolution, cultural behaviour, cognition, social ecology, citizen-science, GPS, urban adaptation Supervisor Lucy Aplin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology RadolfzellAPPLICATION DEADLINE CLOSED! more From sensory perception to action: Active sensing in insects Keywords active sensing, sensory coding, insects, sensorimotor control, decision making Main advisor Einat Couzin-Fuchs, University of Konstanz more Heritability and microevolution of hormonal traits Keywords hormone, corticosterone, microevolution, heritability, great tit, field work, data baseMain advisor Michaela Hau, MPIO SeewiesenAPPLICATION DEADLINE CLOSED JAN 15! more Alternative Reproductive Tactics in Birds: how to overcome a Ruff handicap Keywords mating behaviour, alternative reproductive tactics, evolutionary stable strategies, evolutionary genetics, supergene, demographic models Supervisors Clemens Küpper, MPIO Seewiesen, Susanne Schindler, U BristolAPPLICATION DEADLINE CLOSED JAN 15! more Interested in one of these PhD projects? Apply here!