Evolution Think Tank (ETT)
The Evolution Think Tank (ETT) promotes the development of a sustainable interdisciplinary research and education programme at the forefront of evolutionary research. ETT-Fellowships are designed for postdoctoral and advanced researchers working in the field of evolution, individualization or niche concepts for stays of 1 to 6 months.
In close interaction with doctoral students of the MGSE, the ETT will establish mechanisms for the transfer of evolutionary knowledge and the application of evolutionary principles into practice. The ETT-Fellows work with the doctoral students and PIs of the MGSE on interdisciplinary projects and will thereby contribute to the advancement of evolutionary theory.1. Application Process:
ETT-Fellows will be invited by the MGSE Steering Committee based on suggestions from MGSE members or successful applications. Interested individuals should submit the following:
- Letter of motivation
- Curriculum Vitae
- Summary of research and teaching plans for the fellowship
2. Benefits for Fellows:
In addition to the invaluable scientific exchange with MGSE members, selected fellows will receive:
- Funding for travel expenses and accommodation
- A monthly stipend of up to €1000 to cover extra expenses
3. Fellowship Activities:
ETT-Fellows, during their 1–6-month research stay, will:
- Visit various labs within MGSE, fostering interaction with doctoral students and PIs for potential collaboration.
- Organize a workshop centered around specific evolutionary topics, potentially resulting in review papers.
- Deliver a talk during one of the MGSE lecture series.
Applications and suggestions are welcome at any time of the year. Female fellows are particularly encouraged to apply, and we look forward to receiving applications.
For inquiries or to submit your application, please reach out to mgse@uni-muenster.de
Current ETT-Fellows & guests
Currently, there are no ETT-Fellows. To apply for ETT fellowship, please contact mgse@uni-muenster.de
Future ETT-Fellows & guests
Future ETT-Fellows
Name Affiliatition Stay in Münster Dr. Gerald Koudelka Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo March - May 2025 Dr David Liberles Department of Biology and Center for Computational Genetics and Genomics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA 2026 Future guests
Name Affilliation Stay in Münster Former ETT-Fellows & guests
Former ETT-Fellows
Name Affiliation Stay in Münster Dr Jorge Contreras-Garduño ENES Morelia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico February - November 2023 Prof Dr Robert E. Page Jr. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA June - August 2023 Dr Barbara Milutinovic IST Austria 16 January - 23 February 2020 Prof Dr Geoffrey D. Findlay Department of Biology, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA 16 January - 15 February 2020 Prof Dr Jack Werren Department of Biology, University of Rochester, USA 18 September - 16 December 2019 Prof Dr Leo W. Beukeboom Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, NL 1 - 14 August 2019 1 - 30 November 2019
Prof Dr Sara Brownell School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, USA 16 May - 15 July 2019 Prof Dr Sarah Schaack Department of Biology, Reed College, USA 1 March - 30 April 2019 Prof Dr Michael B. Hennessy Department of Psychology, Wright State University, USA 1 May - 31 July 2018 Prof Dr Christina Grozinger Center for Pollinator Research, Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences, USA 4 June - 28 July 2018 Prof Dr Juan Alfonzo Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, USA 11 July - 13 September 2017 Prof Dr Loriano Ballarin Department of Biology, University of Padua, Italy 16 June – 13 July
2017
22 June - 22 July 2015Prof Dr Chris Smith Department of Biology, Earlham College, USA 6 May - 16 June 2017 Dr Mario Rosario Guarracino Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR-CNR), Italy 12 March - 11May 2017 Prof Dr Olga Vasilieva Department of de Mathematics, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia 7 September - 15 December 2015 Prof Dr Alexander Bolshoy Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Israel 7 July - 30 September 2015 Prof Dr Chih-hao Hsieh Institute of Oceanography and Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan 2 August - 30 August 2015 Prof Dr Mitchell Green Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, USA 16 May - 15 June 2015 Prof Dr Lindsay Matthews Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand June 2014 - March 2015 Prof Dr Michio Kondoh Department of Environmental Solution Technology, Ryukoku University, Japan December 2014 - March 2015 Prof Dr Jürgen Gadau School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, USA May - August 2014 Prof Dr Michael B. Hennessy Department of Psychology, Wright State University, USA
June - December 2012
Further MGSE guests
Name Affiliation Occasion Dr Raul Andino University of California, San Francisco MGSE workshop "Forms of innate immune memory" 18. - 19.10.2023 Prof Marc Tatar Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown University. MGSE Workshop "Evolution of Complex phenotypes", 31.07 -01.08.2023 Prof Dr Jacobus Jan Boomsma Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark MGSE workshop "Karl Popper’s continued relevance for evolutionary biology", 20 April 2023 Prof Dr Klaus Reinhold Department of Evolutionary Biology, Bielefeld University, Germany Invited lecture, 6 September 2022 Prof Dr Dino McMahon Institute of Biology - Zoology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany MGSE workshop "The Evolution of Social Immunity", 13-14 February 2020 Chris Pull Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University London, UK MGSE workshop "The Evolution of Social Immunity", 13-14 February 2020 Dr Peter Biedermann Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, University of Würzburg, Germany MGSE workshop "The Evolution of Social Immunity", 13-14 February 2020 Dr Clelia Gasparini Departmen of Biology, University of Padova, Italy MGSE workshop "The Evolution of Reproductive Traits", 5 February 2020 Dr Steven Ramm Evolutionary Biology, Bielefeld University, Germany MGSE workshop "The Evolution of Reproductive Traits", 5 February 2020 Dr Bryan C. Daniels Arizona State University and Santa Fe Institute for Biosocial Complex Systems, USA Invited lecture, 27 January 2020 PD Dr Kathrin Lampert Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, Germany Invited lecture, 20 January 2020 Jun-Prof Dr Meike Wittmann Theoretical Biology, Bielefeld University, Germany Invited lecture, 16 December 2019 Jun-Prof Dr. Jan Baedke Institut eopf Philosophy I, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany Invited lecture, 2 December 2019 Prof Dr Annette Becker Institute of Botany, Justis-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany Invited lecture, 25 November 2019 Dr Barbara Caspers Department of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University, Germany Invited lecture, 17 June 2019 Prof Dr Jacobus Jan Boomsma Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Joint Symposium, 27 -28 May 2019 Prof Dr Petra Dersch Institute of Infectiology, University of Münster, Germany Invited lecture, 13 May 2019 Prof Dr Frank Thuijsman Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering, Maastricht University, NL Invited lecture, 21.01.2019 Prof Dr Ralph Tollrian Department of Animal Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity, Ruhr-University Bochum Invited lecture, 17.12.2018 Dr Sebastian Grönke Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne Invited lecture, 03.12.2018 Dr Florian Horn Innsbruck Invited lecture, 19.-20.11.2018 Prof Dr Oliver Krüger Department of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University MGSE Retreat, 06.-08.11.2018 Prof Dr Vidyanand Nanjundiah & Dr Veena Rao Centre for Human Genetics, Bangalore, IN 10 July - end of July 2018 Prof Dr Paula Stockley University of Liverpool, UK MGSE Symposium, 20.-22.04.2018 Prof Dr Leo Beukeboom University of Groningen, The Netherlands MGSE Symposium, 21.-22.03.2018 Prof Dr Thomas Junker Faculty of Biology, University of Tübingen Invited lecture, 29.01.2018 Dr Cinzia Ferrario Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Italy MGSE Workshop, 12.07.2017 Dr Tsuyoshi Momose Observatoire Océanologique, Villefranche-sur-Mer Cedex, France MGSE Workshop, 12.07.2017 Prof Dr Ehab Abouheif Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal MGSE Workshop, 01.06.2017 Dr Jan Baedke Department of Philosophy I, Ruhr University Bochum Invited lecture, 22.05.2017 Prof Dr Marie I. Kaiser Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld MGSE Symposium, 22. -23.03.2017 Prof Dr Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther Philosophy Department , University of California Santa Cruz MGSE Symposium, 22. -23.03.2017 Prof Dr Philippe Huneman Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, CNRS / Université Paris I Sorbonne MGSE Symposium, 22. -23.03.2017 Prof Dr Christian Kost Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Osnabrück Invited lecture + Masterclass, 30.01.2017 Prof Dr Klaus Reinhold Department of Evolutionary Biology, Bielefeld University Invited lecture + Masterclass, 23.01.2017 Dr Tobias Krause Institute of Animal Welfare and Husbandry, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut Celle MGSE Retreat, 24.-26.10.2016 Prof Dr Ralph Tollrian Department of Animal Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity, Ruhr University Bochum Invited lecture, 03.02.2016 Prof Dr Jens Boenigk Department of Biodiversity, University of Duisburg-Essen Invited lecture, 09.12.2015 Dr Katrin Hammerschmidt Institute of General Microbiology, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany Invited lecture, 02.12.2015 Prof Dr John Baines Evolutionary Genomics, University of Kiel & MPI for Evolutionary Biology in Plön IEB Seminar series + Masterclass, 01.12.2015 Prof Dr Edward Hagen Department of Anthropology, Washington State University Vancouver, USA MGSE Symposium, 20.-21.10.2015 Dr Ted Morrow Evolution, Behaviour and Environment Group, University of Sussex, England MGSE Symposium, 20.-21.10.2015 Prof Dr Frank Rühli Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland MGSE Symposium, 20.-21.10.2015 Prof Dr Edward Trifonov Institute of Evolution, Haifa University, Israel MGSE Workshop, 28.-29.09.2015 Prof Dr Olga Ozoline Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia MGSE Workshop, 28.-29.09.2015 Prof Dr Philipp Bucher Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland MGSE Workshop, 28.-29.09.2015 Dr Vasilis Dakos Institute of integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland CeNoS and MGSE Workshop, 25.-26.8.2015 Dr Elena Levashina Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany CeNoS and MGSE Workshop, 25.-26.8.2015 Prof Dr Baruch Rinkevich National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel MGSE Workshop, 6.-7.7.2015 Prof Dr Louis Du Pasquier Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland MGSE Workshop, 6.-7.7.2015 Prof Dr Klaudia Witte Institute of Biology, University of Siegen, Germany MGSE Workshop, 11.6.2015 Prof Dr Nikola Kompa Institute of Philosophy, University of Osnabrück, Germany MGSE Workshop, 11.6.2015 Prof Dr Louis-Felix Bersier Department of Biology, Unit of Ecology & Evolution, University of Fribourg, Switzerland MGSE Workshop, 11.-12.3.2015 Dr Carlos Melian Theoretical Evolutionary Ecosystem Ecology Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Kastanienbaum, Switzerland MGSE Workshop, 11.-12.3.2015 Dr Elisa Thébault Institute of ecology and environmental sciences - Paris (IEES), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France MGSE Workshop, 11.-12.3.2015 Prof Dr Andrew Janczak Department of Production Animal Clinical Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway MGSE Workshop, 3.-4.2.2015 Dr Tobias Krause Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Bielefeld, Germany MGSE Workshop, 3.-4.2.2015 Prof Michael Lässig Statistical Physics and Quantitative Biology, University of Cologne, Germany MGSE Symposium, 30.6. - 1.7.2014 Prof Franjo Weissing Theoretical Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands MGSE Symposium, 30.6. - 1.7.2014 Prof Dr Oliver Piskurek formerly Research Centre "Geobiology", Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany IEB Seminar, 17.6.2014 Prof Dr Seth Bordenstein Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, USA MGSE Workshop, 4. - 5.6.2014 Prof Dr Timothy Linksvayer Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, USA MGSE Workshop, 4. - 5.6.2014 Prof Dr Loriano Ballarin Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy IEB Seminar, 27.6.2014 Prof Dr Masahiro Fujishima Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Japan Invited Lecture 19.8.2013 Prof Dr Sarah Teichmann EMBL-EBI and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK MGSE Symposium, 12. - 13.6.2013 Prof Dr Thomas Bosch Zoological Institute, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany MGSE Symposium, 12. - 13.6.2013 Prof Dr Robyn Hudson Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico Seminar at Dept. of Behavioural Biology, 5.4.2013 How to apply?
ETT-Fellowships are designed for experienced postdoctoral and senior researchers. ETT-Fellows will be invited by the MGSE Steering Committee upon suggestion by MGSE members or after successful application.
Applications should include the following documents:
- Letter of motivation
- Curriculum Vitae including a list of publications documenting the applicant's independent research profile
- Summary of research plans for the stay as ETT-Fellow, e.g., on which projects does the applicant like to work with the PhD students, are there any plans for a workshop or the organization of book/journal clubs for the PhD students etc.
Applications (single PDF file) and suggestions for Fellowships may be sent to mgse@uni-muenster.de at any time.
Candidates will be selected on the basis of the evaluation of their academic qualification and the expected input for the PhD students of the graduate school. The selection decision will be made by the MGSE steering committee.
Internationalisation as key to excellence
On the occassion of three years support by 'Santander Universiäten', the University of Münster published a booklet summarizing activities and accomplishments between 2013 - 2015. The booklet 'Internationalisation as key to excellence' can be viewed here.
