Nominator's project description
| Professor Székely is an internationally leading researcher in animal social behaviour. His main research interest is breeding system evolution, and he is using game-theoretic analyses, phylogenetic comparative methods and field biology to understand the diverse mating and parental behaviour of animals. His major study organisms are birds, particularly shorebirds. Professor Szekely has made fundamental contributions to theoretical and empirical understanding of mating systems and parental care evolution, and he is dedicated conservation biologist. In Germany, he will broaden his ongoing research on mating systems and parental care systems to also include primates as well as neur-genomic approaches to the study of social behavior. |
