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Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies

Sofia Forss

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Research interests

Animal behaviour, Comparative Cognition, Behavioral Ecology, Animal Curiosity and Innovativeness, Social Learning in Animals, the Captivity Effect on Animal Cognition, Developmental Influences on Cognitive Development, and the Causes and Consequences on Animal Behaviour caused by Urbanization

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Education and professional positions

2022 – present Ambizione Group Leader, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, funded by Swiss National Science Foundation
2021 – 2022 Junior Fellow at Collegium Helveticum, the joint Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of the ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, and the Zurich University of the Arts
2020 – 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, funded by the Forschungskredit
2019 – 2020 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation
2017 – 2019 Postdoctoral Fellows at the Institute for Archaeology and Prehistorical Sciences at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, funded by Swiss National Science Foundation
2010 – 2016 Ph.D. Evolutionary Anthropology, Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2007 – 2009 M.Sc. Evolutionary Anthropology, Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2003 – 2006 B.Sc. Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Selected publications

  • Forss SIF., Willems EP. (2022). The curious case of Ape curiosity and how it is shaped by sociality. Ethology. DOI: 10.1111/eth.13313
  • Forss S., Motes-Rodrigo A., Dongre P., Mohr T., van de Waal E. (2022). Captivity and habituation to humans raise curiosity in vervet monkeys. Animal Cognition, 25(3):671-682. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-021-01589-y
  • Forss SIF., Motes-Rodrigo A., Hrubesch C., Tennie C. (2020). Chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) problem-solving skills are influenced by housing facility and captive care duration. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10263
  • Damerius LA., Forss SIF. (shared 1st authorship), Kosonen ZK., Willems E., Burkart JM., Call J., Galdikas BM., Liebal K., Haun D., van Schaik CP. (2017). Orientation toward humans predicts cognitive performance in orangutans. Scientific Reports. 7: 40052. link
  • Forss SIF., Willems E., Call J., van Schaik CP. (2016). Cognitive differences between orangutan species: a test of the cultural intelligence hypothesis. Scientific Reports 6: 30156. link
  • van Schaik CP., Burkart J., Damerius L., Forss SIF., Koops K., van Noordwijk MA., Schuppli C. (2016). The reluctant innovator: orang-utans and the phylogeny of creativity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0183

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Sofia Forss

Sofia Forss

Independent group leader

Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zurich

Office: Y25-G-78

 

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