Main Scientific Interests

• Reproductive Strategies


• Behavioural Endocrinology


• Reproductive Physiology


• Stress Physiology


• Life History


• Sexual Selection

Academic Career

• 07/2011 PhD in Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen


• 2007-2011 PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and the Georg-August-University Göttingen. Thesis: “The Socio-endocrinology of Female Reproductive Strategies in Wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)”


• 04/2006 Diploma in Biology, University of Vienna


• 1998-2006 Studies of Biology, University of Vienna

Publications

Research articles

• Fürtbauer, I., Heistermann, M., Schülke, O., & Ostner, J. (2012) Brief communication: Fecal androgen excretion and fetal sex effects during gestation in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147, 334-339.


• Fürtbauer, I., Mundry, R., Heistermann, M., Schülke, O., & Ostner, J. (2011) You mate, I mate: Macaque females synchronize sex not cycles. PLoS ONE 6(10): e26144. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026144


• Fürtbauer, I., Heistermann, M., Schülke, O., & Ostner, J. (2011) Concealed fertility and extended female sexuality in a non-human primate (Macaca assamensis). PLoS ONE 6(8): e23105. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023105


• Fürtbauer, I., Schülke, O., Heistermann, M., & Ostner, J. (2010) Reproductive and life history parameters of wild female Macaca assamensis. International Journal of Primatology 31, 501-517. doi: 00640010.1007/s10764-010-9409-3

Conference contributions

• Fürtbauer, I., Heistermann, M., Schülke, O., & Ostner, J. (2010) Non-procreative, polyandrous mating in wild female Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis): evidence for concealed ovulation. PhD-Workshop, 1st-3rd December, Akademie Waldschlösschen, Reinhausen.


• Fürtbauer, I., Schülke, O., Heistermann, M., & Ostner, J. (2009) Sexual strategies and field endocrinology in female Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis). Primate Report 2: 18.


• Fürtbauer, I., Schülke, O., Heistermann, M., & Ostner, J. (2009) Reproductive parameters of wild female Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis). Folia Primatologica 80: 118.


• Fürtbauer, I., Heistermann, M., Schülke, O., & Ostner, J. (2008) Mating strategies of female Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis) at Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary. 29th Thailand Wildlife Seminar, 18th- 19th December, Kasetsart University, Bangkok.


• Fürtbauer, I., Heistermann, M., Schülke, O., & Ostner, J. (2008) Female mating strategies in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis). Primate Eye 96: 10.