Present academic position

Since 09/2020 Equal Opportunity Officer of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology

Since 12/2019 Max Planck Group Leader, Research group Behavioural Ecology of Individual Differences, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology

Scientific career

10/2018 – 12/2019 Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Department of Evolutionary Genetics

08/2018 – 10/2018 Postdoc at Bielefeld University, Department of Evolutionary Biology 

02/2018 – 08/2018 Postdoc at Bielefeld University, Department of Animal Behaviour 

02/2016 - 01/2018 Postdoc at the University of Groningen supported by a personal grant of the Leopoldina – National Academy of Sciences.

08/2013 – 01/2016 Postdoc at Bielefeld University, Department of Animal Behaviour

Funding and Prices

02/2016 - 01/2018 Leopoldina Postdoc scholarship

08/2016                 Fritz-Frank Award of the German Society for Mammalian Biology

Conference contributions & invited seminars (selected)

Invited seminars

Zoological Colloquium of the University of Hamburg, June 2023

Institute for Zoology, University of Bonn (via Zoom), December 2021

Biological Colloquium CAU Kiel, June 2021

Department of Animal Ecology, Potsdam University (via Zoom), June 2021

Department of Behavioural Ecology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (via Zoom), January 2021

Agnes Scott College, Georgia US (Zoom lecture), October 2020

Speaker at conferences

Density-dependent effects on survival and preproduction in slow and fast house mouse personality types (Behaviour, August 2023, Bielefeld, Germany)

Guenther, A. Does a change in food quality induce an adaptation in pace-of-life syndromes within three generations? (ECBB (Groningen, NL) & ISBE (Stockholm, S), 2022)

Guenther, A. Causes and consequences of seasonal plasticity in a precocial rodent (Workshop Causes and Consequences of Inclusive Inheritance, Plön, Germany, 2019)

Guenther, A., Krebs, R. Personality-dependent space use affects reproductive success in wild mice (5th International Mouse Meeting, Brno, Czech Republic, 2019)

Guenther, A., Eweleit, L. Fitness consequences of seasonally different life histories: A match-mismatch experiment in female wild cavies (Meeting of the Ethological Society, Hannover, 2019)

Guenther, A., Goerlich-Jansson, V. Sex-specific pace-of-life syndromes in cavies? (Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (DZG), Greifswald, Germany, 2018)

Guenther, A. Development and function of animal personality in cavies (invited talk at the European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Liverpool, UK , 2018)

Conference organizing

Co-organiser of the Virtual Graduate Meeting for Animal Behaviour 2022

Co-organiser of the Virtual Meeting of the Animal Behaviour Section of the German Zoological Society 2021

Co-organiser of the Virtual Meeting of the Animal Behaviour Section of the German Zoological Society 2020

Main organiser of the “Graduate Meeting for Animal Behaviour” in Plön, 23-25. October 2019

Education

2010-2013 Bielefeld University, Germany: Ph.D. at the Department of Behavioural Biology. Thesis: “The importance of ecology for early development”

2007-2009 University of Osnabrück, Germany: Graduate studies and diploma thesis (M.Sc. equivalent) at the Department of Ecology. Thesis: “Die Wildbienengemeinschaft des Morteratschgletschervorfelds im Oberengadin im Bereich von 1960- 1987“

2004-2007 University of Osnabrück, Germany: Undergraduate studies in Biology