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Curriculum vitae

Name: Nils Cordes
Nationality: German
Date of birth: April 3, 1980

Education

10/2001 – 1/2007
Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany
Title of Qualification: Diplom-Biologe (equiv. MSc)
Principal Subjects/Occupational Skills: Zoology, Entomology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Ethology, Climatology
Thesis Title: Learning Behaviour of the Termite Macrotermes natalensis

8/1996 – 6/1997
Student exchange to Roxana High School, East Alton, IL, USA

8/1986 – 7/2000
Primary and Secondary School in Dortmund, Germany


Professional experience

6/2007
Supervision of ethological graduate studies on learning behavior of honey bees, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

1/2006 – 5/2006
Field work for the diploma thesis in South Africa, supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

5/2006 – 7/2006
Supervision of zoological excursions for undergratuate students

7/2004 – 8/2004
Field work for a research study on the relationship of the bumble bee Bombus terrestris and the linden tree Tilia tomentosa

11/2003 – 4/2004
Research and voluntary service in a mountain research station of the Philippine Endemic Species Conservation Project (PESCP) on Panay, Philippines. Studies on the predator-prey relationship in arthropods.


Publication history

Cordes, N.: Learning behavior in the termite Macrotermes natalensis (submitted)

Cordes, N. & Demberg, B.: Effect of the Odor of a Linden Tree Tilia tomentosa On the Bumble Bee Bombus terrestris (unpublished)

 

 

 

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