Personal tools
You are here: Home → Members → kschaefer
Document Actions

Univ.Prof. Dr. Katrin Schaefer

admin — 2008-06-19 01:53
Katrin Schaefer

Department of Anthropology
University of Vienna
Althanstr. 14
A-1090 Vienna, AUSTRIA
phone: 0043 (0) 1 4277 54747
fax: 0043 (0) 1 4277 9547
email:katrin.schaefer@univie.ac.at

Personal

Year / Place of Birth
 Born 1967 in Bremen, Germany
Nationality German


Education

1986 Senior High School graduation in Bremen, Germany
1987 Development aid in Sao Paulo, Brazil
1988 Practical training at Centre of Human Genetics at the University of Bremen
1988 - 1991 Study of Common Biology at the University of Vienna, Austria
1991 Diploma of Common Biology at the University of Vienna
1992 Diploma of Zoology and Human Biology at the University of Vienna
1994 Master in Science, University of Vienna: Communication and satisfaction in urban housing areas (German) Supervisor: K Grammer, LBI for Urban Ethology
1997 Doctor in Science (rerum naturalium), University of Vienna: The social-integrative potential of urban squares (German). Supervisor: K Grammer, LBI for Urban Ethology
2004 Habilitation (venia docendi for Anthropology), University of Vienna, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics: Quantifying evolutionary anthropology - from behavior studies to geometric morphometrics


Positions

Current position Associate professor
2000-2003 Assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna
1995-1999 Contract assistant, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Vienna
1994 Research assistant in the MA7 (Kulturamt Wien) project: Zur Lebendigkeit von Plaetzen im oeffentlichen Raum at the LBI for Urban Ethology, Vienna, Austria


Research experience

since 2004 Co-Leader of the ‘Center of Morphometrics', Dept. of Anthropology.
since 2003 Co-Leader of the 'Red Bed Exploration Survey' mission in the Northwest Afar Depression, Afar Region, Ethiopia.
since 2002 Coordinating investigations of the Siberian hominid teeth from Okladnikov and Denisova cave. Project leaders: H Seidler and A Derevianko.
2003 Comparative studies of the Galila specimens at the National Museum Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
since 2000 Participation in the PaleoAnthropological Research- (PAR-) Team mission, surveying Pliocene deposits in the Somali Region, Ethiopia. PI: H Seidler.
1999 Participation in the MA18 project (Stadtentwicklung und Stadtplanung Gruppe Wissenschaft W/650/98): Walking Speed and Depression.
1999 Co-leader of the University-Anniversary Foundation of the City of Vienna project (MA8 H-1/98): Future of Urban Living
1999 Leader of the Austrian National Bank project (OeNB 7270/1) Quality and Quantity of Human Interactions on Public Squares.
1998
 Leader of the MA18 project (Stadtentwicklung und Stadtplanung Gruppe Wissenschaft. WI/1012/97): Satisfaction and Cooperation in Public Spaces.
1997-1999 Co-leader of the project: Individual and Cultural Diversity, supported by the Johann Jacobs Foundation Zurich, Switzerland.
1996 Investigations of Peruvian ice-mummies at the Universidad Católica Santa María de Arequipa and mummies at the Centro Mallquí in Ilo, Peru. PI: H Seidler.


Teaching experience

since 2003 Human Behavioral Ecology (Lecture)
since 2003 Basic Human Ethology Course for Anthropologists (Project Practicum V)
since 2003 Behavior Analysis III: Computer methods for recording data (Practicum)
since 2000 Introduction to Anthropology for Biologists (Introd. Course and Lecture )
since 1998 Palaeo-Ethology (Seminar)
1997-2002 Introduction to Human Behaviour (Lecture)
1997-2003 Computer Oriented Methods in Recording Behavioural Data (Practicum)
1997-2001 Supervisor in Project Planning Practice for Human Biologists (Practicum)
since 1997 Human Ethological Practical Training I+II (Practicum) 1994 Ethological Practice (Practicum, Introd. course)
1994 Ethological Practice (Practicum, Introd. course)

Theses Supervisor

since 2004: 7 Masters theses, 2 PhD theses
1995-2004: 10 theses co-supervised



Organising Activities

2006 Morphometrics Symposium: Morphology and data analysis in three dimensions
2000 3rd Zumtobel Lectures: Missing Geometry in Palaeoanthropology, Vienna
1999 3rd Philipp V. Tobias Lectures: Evolution of the Human Brain, Vienna
1998 2nd Zumtobel Lectures: Vienna Morphometric Workshop, Vienna
1996 13th Conference of the International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE), Vienna

Cooperations

Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA Dept. for Sociobiology/Anthropology,
University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany. Vienna University Clinic of Dentistry,
Department of Orthodontics, Vienna. Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethnology, Vienna.
Institute for Anthropological Research, Amruševa 8, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia,
Department of Medical Engineering, Division of Radiologic Sciences,
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1022, USA, Archäologische Biologie und Anthropologie, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Department. of Anthropology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.
Geologisch-Paläontologische Abteilung, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany. Paläoanthropologie, Sektion Tertiäre Säugetiere,
Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Department of Radiology II, University Clinic Innsbruck, Innsbruck.