prof.dr. M (Marc) Naguib

Professor in Behavioural Ecology, Director Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences (WIAS Graduate School)

WUR personal website

http://www.behaviouralecology.nl/marc-naguib

Short CV
Chairholder Behavioural Ecology Group at Wageningen University. Director of WIAS graduate school (Wageningen Institute of Animal Science), council member of Lucie Burgers Foundation. From 2008 to 2011 senior researcher and head of the Animal Personality Group at the Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW). In 2010 and 2016 visiting professor at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, France. Previous positions: 2000-2008 Department of Animal Behaviour, University Bielefeld (Group Fritz Trillmich), Germany, promoted to the rank of professor in 2007. From 1995 to 1999 researcher in Animal Behaviour at the Freie Universität Berlin (Group Dietmar Todt). PhD from 1992-1995 at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, USA (PhD in 1995, Group R. Haven Wiley in cooperation with Steve Nowicki, Duke University, NC). Studied Biology at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany (1984-1991 Diplom in Biology; group Dietmar Todt). Published over 150 publications and acquired over 4 Mio Euro in research grants.

Previously: President of the Netherlands Society for Behavioural Biology (NVG, 2020-2025), Wageningen Academic Board member from 2019-2022, board member of WIAS graduate school 2017-2020,  board member Expat Center (2017-2020), member of the KNAW-DEC (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science-Animal Experimentation Committee; 2016-2021), council member (2004-2010) and grants secretary (2006-2010) of the Association of the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB), Secretary of the Ethologische Gesellschaft (2007-2010). Editor of journal Animal Behaviour (2004-2006), of the Animal Communication Section for the Encyclopedia in Language and Linguistics 2 (2003), Journal of Ornithology (2014-2017), Behavioral Ecology (2018-2021), and Editor (2003-2021) and Executive Editor (2013-2021) of Advances in the Study of Behaviour.

Research interests

My research covers a range of different topics on the behavioural mechanisms, their development, function and evolution, mainly using birds as model organisms. My main research interest has been on animal vocal communication and territoriality, including the spatial and social organisation of animal societies, with a focus on songbirds as model system. For most of my research I have been using nightingales, great tits and zebra finches as model species. A current focus is on social organisation of wild zebra finches in Australia. I am also interested in conservation behaviour and human wildlife conflicts, topics on which we run two large inter-disciplinary projects (Eco2 and CONNECT projects).

Within my research lines, we cover topics such as: animal communication, bioacoustics, birdsong, movement ecology (radio-tracking), spatial and territorial behaviour, animal cognition, social interactions and social organisation, animal personality, conservation behaviour 

• Lucie Burgers Stichting (1-11-2015/30-6-2031)
  Council member