Curriculum Vitae
Employment
2009 - present: Post-doc in the Department of Animal Ecology and the Project Group Movement Ecology at the NIOO-KNAW.
Education
2006-2009: Dr rer nat (PhD) at the Carl von Ossieztky Universität Oldenburg, Germany (2007-2009) and Universität Potsdam, Germany (2006-2007). Topic: "Large-scale biological transportation networks - cargo ship traffic and bird migration"
2000 - 2005: Diplom (MSc) in Biomathematics at the Ernst Moritz Arndt - Universität, Greifswald, Germany. Thesis in collaboration with Uppsala University, Sweden: "Population Dynamics and Statistical Analysis of longtime mark-recapture data in Great Snipe (Gallinago media)"
Projects
Movement Ecology Modelling and Data Analysis
- Migration timing of arctic-breeding geese
- Optimal foraging of mud snails
- Foraging decisions of African elephants
- Personality and movement of great tits
Co-Operation
Bernd Blasius (University of Oldenburg, Germany), Helmut Kruckenberg (Europäisches Blessgans Forschungsprogramm, Germany), Frederic Bartumeus (CEAB-CSIC, Spain), Fred de Boer (Wageningen University)
Selected Publications
Andrea Kölzsch, Stein Are Sæther, Henrik Gustafsson, Peder Fiske, Jacob Höglund and John Atle Kålås. 2007. Population fluctuations and regulation in great snipe - a time series analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology 76(4): 740-749.
Andrea Kölzsch and Bernd Blasius. 2008. Theoretical approaches to bird migration - the white stork as a case study. The European Physical Journal Special Topics 157: 191-208.
Pablo Kaluza, Andrea Kölzsch, Michael T. Gastner and Bernd Blasius. 2010. The complex network of global cargo ship movements. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 7: 1093-1103. (download from arXiv)
Christine Kowallik, Helmut Kruckenberg, Kees Koffijberg, Andrea Kölzsch and Johannes Borbach-Jaene. 2010. Numbers, phenology and distribution of European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria in the Ems-Dollard area, Lower Saxony, NW Germany (in German). Vogelwelt 131: 59 - 70. (download from NIOO repository)
Rien E. van Wijk, Andrea Kölzsch, Helmut Kruckenberg, Barwolt S. Ebbinge, Gerhard J. D. M. Müskens and Bart A. Nolet. 2011. Indiviually tracked geese follow peaks of temperature acceleration during spring migration. Oikos (in press). (download from NIOO repository)
Andrea Kölzsch and Bernd Blasius. 2012. Indications of marine bioinvasion from network theory. An analysis of the global cargo ship network. European Physical Journal B (in press).
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