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Gabriella Gall’s research is directed at understanding how individuals in groups communicate and coordinate group actions. More specifically, the biologist is interested in how the ability of an individual to coordinate effectively with others develops and what the fitness consequences of efficient communication are. She studies these questions in a range of bird species (domestic chicken and pūkeko) and is currently focusing on how experiences made within the egg affect hatching…

Andreagiovanni Reina, who is an expert on swarm robotics and collective decision-making, joined the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour in December 2023 as junior group leader.

After more than 35 years of surveillance, researchers from Michigan State University, the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, and the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz are exposing some of the secret workings of mobs. The team revealed that relationships and social interactions between hyenas can influence when two or more animals decide to work together to attack lions. This type of cooperative behaviour is called mobbing.

Honey bees and social wasps developed a similar solution for nest building although evolution separated them 179 million years ago. This is a new finding by researcher Michael L Smith from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior published in PLOS BIOLOGY.

Perceptions about sustainability and healthy food choices are closely linked, as a study at the University of Konstanz shows

How can we reliably and objectively characterize the speed and various stages of embryonic development? With the help of artificial intelligence! Researchers at the University of Konstanz present an automated method.

A delegation from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour visited York University and Western University, two Canadian universities.

Psychologists from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour are using EEG to research what games reveal about our ability to cooperate.

50 years ago, Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, and Nikolaas Tinbergen received the 1973 medicine Nobel Prize “for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns.” That is why the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences hold a symposium titled The Social Brain. Among the invited guest was Iain Couzin, co-speaker of the Cluster of Excellence CASCB.