Prof. Dr. Arne Traulsen

Education/Training

2002-2005
Studies in Biology, Bielefeld University and Cambridge University, UK

1998 – 2000
Dr. rer nat in theoretical physics at Kiel University (summa cum laude)

1996 – 2002
Studies in Geophysics and Physics in Kiel, Leipzig and Göteborg

Research Experience/Academic Appointments

Since 2018
Honorary Professor at Kiel University

Since 2014
Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön

Since 2012
Honorary Professor for Mathematical Biology, Lübeck University

2010 – 2014
Tenured Group Leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön (W2)

2007 – 2010
Emmy-Noether Group Leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön

2005 – 2007
PostDoc at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University, USA (mathematical biology)

Important Scientific Prizes/Functions

2012
Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics, German Physical Society

2008 – 2013
Emmy-Noether Fellowship of the DFG

2005 – 2007
PostDoc scholarship of the Leopoldina

2002 – 2005
PhD scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes