Curriculum Vitae
| 2023-present | Postgraduate research fellow at the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz. |
| 2018-2022 | PhD-Candidate at the Department of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University. PhD thesis: How to behave in a changing world: Development and consequences of stable behavioural differences in the Galápagos sea lion. |
| 2021-2022 | Lab Visits at the Marmot Project Italy. |
| 2015 | Research project at the Wolf Science Center, Ernstbrunn. |
| 2015 | Research internship at the Marine Science Center, Rostock |
| 2014-2017 | MSc Biosciences, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster. |
| 2011-2014 | BSc Biosciences, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster. |
Forschungsinteressen
- Tierpersönlichkeit
- Futtersuchstrategien
- Biologging
- Naturschutzverhalten
Laufende Projekte
Publikationen
- Schwarz, J. F. L., DeRango, E. J., Zenth, F., Kalberer, S., Hoffman, J. I., Mews, S., Piedrahita, P., Trillmich, F., Páez-Rosas, D., Thiboult, A., & Krüger, O. (2022). A stable foraging polymorphism buffers Galápagos sea lions against environmental change. Current Biology, 32(7), 1623-1628.
- Zenth, F., DeRango, E. J., Krüger, O., Piedrahita, P., Páez-Rosas, D., & Schwarz, J. F. L. (2021). More than the sum of its parts: individual behavioural phenotypes of a wild pinniped. Animal Behaviour, 179, 213-223. (senior author).
- Schwarz, J. F. L., Mews, S., DeRango, E. J., Langrock, R., Piedrahita, P., Páez-Rosas, D., & Krüger, O. (2021). Individuality counts: A new comprehensive approach to foraging strategies of a tropical marine predator. Oecologia, 1-13.
- DeRango, E. J., Schwarz, J. F. L., Piedrahita, P., Páez‐Rosas, D., Crocker, D. E., & Krüger, O. (2021). Hormone‐mediated foraging strategies in an uncertain environment: Insights into the at‐sea behavior of a marine predator. Ecology and Evolution, 11(12), 7579-7590. (shared first authorship).
- DeRango, E. J., & Schwarz, J. F. L. (2021). Pinniped ‘Personality’, or Consistent Individual Differences. In Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Otariids and the Odobenid (pp. 367-390). Springer, Cham. (shared first authorship)
- Krüger, O., Kalberer, S., Meise, K., Schwarz, J. F. L., DeRango, E., Piedrahita, P., … & Trillmich, F. (2021). Galápagos Sea Lion (Zalophus wollebaeki, Sivertsen 1953). Ecology and Conservation of Pinnipeds in Latin America, 145-163. Springer, Cham.
- DeRango, E. J., Schwarz, J. F. L., Zenth, F., Piedrahita, P., Páez-Rosas, D., Crocker, D. E., Krüger, O. (2020). Developmental conditions promote individual differentiation of endocrine axes and behavior in a tropical pinniped. Oecologia, 1-11.
- DeRango, E. J., Schwarz, J. F. L., Piedrahita, P., Páez-Rosas, D., Trillmich, F., & Krüger, O. (2019). Intraspecific variation in boldness and exploration shapes behavioral responses to stress in Galápagos sea lion pups. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 73(12), 166.
- DeRango, E. J., Schwarz, J. F. L., Kalberer, S., Piedrahita, P., Páez-Rosas, D., Krüger, O. (2019). Intrinsic and maternal traits influence personality during early life in Galápagos sea lion, Zalophus wollebaeki, pups. Animal Behaviour, 154, 111-120.
- Marshall-Pescini, S., Schwarz, J. F. L., Kostelnik, I., Virányi, Z., & Range, F. (2017). Importance of a species’ socioecology: Wolves outperform dogs in a conspecific cooperation task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(44), 11793-11798.