Ludwig Huber (biologist)
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Ludwig Huber (born 25 July 1964) is an Austrian zoologist and a comparative cognitive biologist cognitive biologist at the Messerli Research Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, where he is co-founder head of the Unit of Comparative Cognition. 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.[1]
He was born in Neunkirchen, Austria, and received a MSc (1988) and a PhD (1991) from the University of Vienna (Austria), 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 Department of Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna. In addition Huber was a lecturer at the Charles University in Prague and the Universidade Salvador (Bahia, Brazil). In 2011 he moved to the new Messerli Research Institute 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.
