Dr Michael Mende
Biologist; since 2019 Science Coordinator at the Couzin Chair of the University of Konstanz and Animal Facility Head of the Department of Collective Behaviour at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behaviour. Since 2022 also Ombud at the said institute. He graduated in Biology from Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, and received his PhD in genetics and developmental biology, also in Mainz, in 2004. After two postdoctoral positions at King's College London and at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute in New York, he coordinated the graduate programmes Quantitative Biosciences Munich (QBM) and the International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry (IMPRS-TP).