Dr. Marlies Heesen

Main scientific interests

  • Behavioural ecology
  • Sociobiology
  • Evolution
  • Conservation



Academic career

  • 1999 - 2005: MSc Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
    Effects of conflict characteristics on reconciliation and stress in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
    Early characterisation of coping strategies in the great tit and its impact on fledging age.
  • 2005 - 2007: MSc Primate Conservation, Oxford Brookes University, Great Britain.
    Feeding competition among chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
  • 2006 - 2007: Research assistant for the Okavango Baboon Research Project, Botswana. University of Pennsylvania.
  • 2008 - 2010: Research assistant for Integrative Primate Socio-Ecology Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.
  • 2010 - 2014: PhD student Social Evolution in Primates Group, Courant Research Centre Evolution of Social Behaviour, University of Göttingen.
    Feeding competition in female Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)



Publications