Invited speakers

Julia Ostener is a professor at the University of Göttingen and the German Primate Center where she heads the Behavioral Ecology Department. She received her PhD in 2003 from the University of Würzburg and conducted postdoctoral research at the State University New York at Stony Brook. From 2005-20010 Julia led an independent junior research group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig which allowed her to start the Phu Khieo Assamese Macaque Project in Thailand. In 2008 she was appointed professor at University of Göttingen. Julia and her group is broadly interested in the evolution of primate social relationships, from adaptive consequences, mediating mechanisms, and underlying cognitive and (hormone)physiological factors. Her research mainly focusses on macaques in their natural habitat 

R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar is an evolutionary anthropologist who studies chimpanzees and other primates in savanna landscapes in Senegal and Tanzania. A substantial part of her work focuses on the study of technological behaviours. She is one of the founders of the interdisciplinary field of primate archaeology. Currently, she is a Serra Hunter professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain.