Klaus Zuberbuhler
Professor
School of Psychology & Neuroscience
University of St Andrews
United Kingdom
Biography
I obtained my undergraduate degree in Zoology and Anthropology from the University of Zurich. I then secured a scholarship to do an MA and PhD in Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. After my PhD, I took a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, where I worked in Mike Tomasello's lab in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology. I moved to St Andrews as Lecturer in 2001. I was promoted to Reader in 2005 and to Professor in 2008. I was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2010. Diploma – University of Zurich, Zoology & Anthropology MA – University of Pennsylvania, Psychology PhD - University of Pennsylvania, Psychology Postdoc – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Comparative Psychology
Research Interest
The evolution of intelligence and origins of language. Research focuses on the mental mechanisms underlying non-human primate communication and behaviour both in the field and in the lab.
Publications
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Ouattara, K, Lemasson, A & Zuberbuehler, K 2009, 'Campbell's monkeys concatenate vocalizations into context-specific call sequences' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 106, no. 51, pp. 22026-22031. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908118106
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Lemasson, A, Ouattara, K, Petit, EJ & Zuberbuehler, K 2011, 'Social learning of vocal structure in a nonhuman primate?' BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol 11, 362. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-362
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Crockford, C, Wittig, RM, Mundry, R & Zuberbuehler, K 2012, 'Wild chimpanzees inform ignorant group members of danger' Current Biology, vol 22, no. 2, pp. 142-146. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.053
