Christian Schopf

Since 10.2009

PhD-student of the Center for Systems Neuroscience (ZSN) and the PhD program HEARING: “Acoustic communication in noise: a comparison between primates differing in habitat type” (Supervisor: E. Zimmermann).

2008 - 2009

Research assistant at the Institute of Zoology (University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover)

2007 - 2008

Final exams and diploma thesis at the Leibniz University in Hannover (Germany) and at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, respectively:
Thesis: “Behavioural experiments and bioacoustic investigations concerning the acoustic behaviour and the meaning of social calls in the Goodman’s mouse lemur (Microcebus lehilaytsara)” (Supervisor: E. Zimmermann)

09.2006 - 01.2007

Field assistant in Madagascar in the project “Spatial cognition in mouse lemurs” (supervisor: M. Joly)

2002 - 2008

Study of biology at the Leibniz University in Hannover

2001 - 2002

Community Service at the Institute for Applied Biology (IfaB) in Freiburg / Niederelbe

2001

Abitur (german university-entrance diploma) from the Fördegymnasium Flensburg

• Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg scholarship
• Poster prize at the 22nd Congress of the International Primatological Society, Edinburgh 2008

since 2008

• International Primatological Society (IPS)
• German society of primatology (GfP)

Abstracts of international conferences

2011

Schopf, C.; Schmidt, S.; Zimmermann, E. (2011): Noise-dependent vocal plasticity in a nocturnal primate? 23rd Meeting of the International Bioacoustics Council (IBAC), La Rochelle, 12.-16.9.2011, p. 142

2010

Schopf, C.; Schmidt, S.; Zimmermann, E. (2010): Noise-dependent vocal plasticity in a nocturnal primate? 23rd Congress of the International Primatological Society, Kyoto, 12.-18.9.2010

2009

Schopf, C.; Scheumann, M.; Zimmermann, E. (2009): Seasonality in vocal behaviour of a nocturnal primate (Microcebus lehilahytsara). 102. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Regensburg, 25.-28.9.2009, p. 44

Leliveld, L.; Schopf, C.; Scheumann, M.; Zimmermann, E. (2009): Individual cues in vocalizations across the vocal repertoire of two mouse lemur species. 11th Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Primatologie, Hannover, 24.-26.2.2009, p. 49

2008

Schopf, C.; Scheumann, M.; Zimmermann, E. (2008): Ultrasonic advertisement calling in the Goodman’s mouse lemur: seasonal effects and individuality. 22nd Congress of the International Primatological Society, Edinburgh, 3.-8.8.2008. Primate Eye 96 (special Issue) # 668

2009

Assistance in the organization of XI. Meeting of the Society for Primatology, Hannover, TiHo