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Onderzoeker

Ruben EVENS

  • Onderzoeksexpertise  (University of Antwerp):- Dutch version to be updated - Starting my own research trajectory in 2009, I have shown independence and urge to reach professional maturity. What started as a conservation-based research trajectory, now evolved into a profound commitment to understand animal behaviour. I have designed and led research on different species in Belgium, Switzerland Afrika and Asia and collaborated with (international) scientists from other fields (biostatistics, population genetics, immunology). To support my research ideas, I have collected over 250.000 EURO of project and personal funding. The initial pioneering, labour-intensive field work to establish Nightjars as a model organism for the study of timing of animal behaviour, and recent invitations to work at prestigious research institutes are an example of my high sense of duty and my acquired scientific independence. It also shows that I possess the mental, organizational, and technical skills to successfully carry out all the objectives of the proposal. I am aware that this pioneering may have resulted in a reduction in the number of publications in recent years, although that will be largely compensated in upcoming years, hopefully in light of this FWO-fellowship. The application of state-of-the-art tracking technologies, which are highly innovative for this type of model organism, has led to the compilation of large and relatively complex datasets that require advanced statistical analysis. I have developed several methods by myself to optimize data collection and investigate new, challenging questions regarding animal behaviour. I have optimized the data-analysis protocols under the supervision of Dr. Bart Kempenaers at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. In the past years, I was supported and trained by a team of world-renowned scientists at prestigious institutes in order to expand my expertise in movement ecology and activity patterns by undertaking innovative and fundamental research (using cutting-edge technology). Building further on this, I will collaborate within a world-class research environment (sensory pollution, animal behaviour, physics) where I will get the freedom to undertake innovative research using nightjars as a model organism. I will become an expert on the impact of astronomical light pollution on animal behaviour, an impactful research frontier in behavioural ecology and global change.
  • Disciplines  (University of Antwerp):Dierenecologie, Gedragsecologie
  • Disciplines  (Hasselt University):Dierlijke ontwikkelings- en reproductieve biologie, Dierenecologie, Dierlijke morfologie, anatomie en fysiologie, Gedragsbiologie, Biologie van gewervelden, Gedragsecologie, Terrestrische ecologie, Conservatie en biodiversiteit, Milieumanagement, Milieumonitoring, Landschapsecologie

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