Michael B. Hennessy
ETT-Fellow 2012 & 2018
Department of Psychology
Wright State University
USA
Website
1 May - 31 July 2018:
Münster Graduate School of Evolution
Hüfferstr. 1a
48149 Münster
Tel.: +49-(0)251/83-21508
Nationality: USA 
Michael B. Hennessy is a Professor at the Departmen of Psychology at the Wright State University in Dayton, OH in the US. Prof. Hennessy is a trained Psychologist working in the field of Behavioural Neurosciences and Behavioral Endocrinology. He has long studied the effects of social separation and social buffering in various rodent and primate species. Together with the group of Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser and Prof. Dr. Sylvia Kaiser, he also worked on the adaptive shaping of the behavioural and neuroendocrine phenotype during different life stages, especially adolescence. Moreoever, Prof. Hennessy does welfare research to reduce the stress of dogs in animal shelters.
Prof. Hennessy was the first ETT-Fellow back in 2012.