Ludwig Huber (biologist)


Ludwig Huber is an Austrian zoologist and a comparative cognitive biologist cognitive biologist at the at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, where he is co-founder head of the Unit of .
His research is focused on the experimental and comparative study of animal cognition, and he has worked with a wide variety of species, including pigeons, dogs, kea, and marmosets.

Education and Career

He was born in Neunkirchen, Austria, and received a MSc and a PhD from the University of Vienna, under the supervision of Rupert Riedl. From 1991 to 2000 he was an assistant professor at the Institute of Zoology, then associate professor, and in 2010 he was co-founder and head of the at the University of Vienna. In addition Huber was a lecturer at the Charles University in Prague and the Universidade Salvador.
In 2011 he moved to the new at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, where he holds the chair of the Natural Science Foundations of Animal Ethics and Human-Animal Interactions. As double-appointment professor he is linked to the Medical University of Vienna.

Research

His research has focused on the experimental and comparative study of animal cognition, studying a wide variety of species, including archerfish, poison frogs, tortoise, pigeons, kea, dogs and marmosets. He has published more than hundred research articles and book chapters on the cognition and behavior of non-human animals.

Honours

In 2011 Huber received the Ig Nobel Prize in Physiology together with Anna Wilkinson and Natalie Sebanz for their study "No evidence of contagious yawning in the red-footed tortoise Geochelone carbonaria". In 2013 he was elected an honorary ambassador of the Jane Goodall Institute Austria, and in 2015 he was elected a member of the scientific advisory board of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.

Selected works