Vita Dr. Sebastian Alexander Baldauf
Vita
- 1999 – 2001: Trainer und Administrator für Windows, Linux, Office und 3D-Visualisierung
- 2001 – 2005: Datenanalyse und Datenvisualisierung, Netzwerk-Administration, Netzwerk-Sicherheit, Datenschutz und Webprojekte, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn
- 2005: Leiter der IT-Abteilung, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn
- 2006 – 2010: Doktorand, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Abschluss als Dr. rer.-nat.
- 2011 – 2012: Stipendant der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft; Universität Groningen. Thema: Großrechnersimulation und statistische Analyse evolutionärer Märkte und Konkurrenz
- seit 2013: Gesellschaft für Immobilienbewertung: IT-Leiter für Digitalisierung, digitale Kommunikation & digitales Marketing, sowie Entwicklung der Immobilienbewertungssoftware „K.IM“
- seit 2013: Gesellschaft für Immobilienbewertung: Sachverständigentätigkeit in der Immobilienbewertung und IT-Projektleitung, sowie rechtliche Gestaltung von IT-Infrastruktur für Sachverständigenbüros in der Immobilienbewertung
- 2015-2018: Youvalue GmbH: IT-Projektleiter, insbesondere dezentrales, digitales Arbeiten und Webperformance für mobile Geräte
- seit 2018: Unternehmensberatung für IT
- seit 2018: vom BISG e.V. ernannter Sachverständiger für die Informatik – Fachbereiche: Netzwerke, Sicherheit, Datenschutz
- seit 2022: Lehrbeauftragter für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Digitalisierung, Relationale Datenbanken und SQL der FHDW Bergisch Gladbach
Gutachtentätigkeit für Fachzeitschriften
- American Naturalist
- Animal Behaviour
- Animal Cognition
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- Behavioural Processes
- BMC Evolutionary Biology
- Environmental Biology of Fishes
- Ethology
- Evolution
- Freshwater Biology
- Journal of Experimental Biology
- Journal of Insect Behavior
- Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society
- Naturwissenschaften
- Plos ONE
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B
- Science
Darüber hinaus ist Dr. Baldauf international bei der Begutachtung von Doktorarbeiten als Gutachter tätig.
Begutachtete Publikationen in wissenschaftlichen Journalen
- Thünken, T., Bakker, T. C. M., Baldauf, S. A. & Kullmann, H. (2007): Active inbreeding in a cichlid fish and its adaptive significance. Current Biology 17: 225-229.
- Thünken, T., Bakker, T. C. M., Baldauf, S. A. & Kullmann, H. (2007): Direct familiarity does not alter mating preferences for sisters in male Pelvicachromis taeniatus (Cichlidae). Ethology 113: 1107-1112.
- Baldauf, S. A., Thünken, T., Frommen, J. G., Bakker, T. C. M., Heupel, O. & Kullmann, H. (2007): Infection with an acanthocephalan manipulates an amphipod’s reaction to a fish predator’s odours. International Journal for Parasitology 37: 61-65.
- Baldauf, S. A., Kullmann, H. & Bakker, T. C. M. (2008): Technical restrictions of computer-manipulated visual stimuli and display units for studying animal behaviour. Ethology 114: 743-751.
- Kullmann, H., Thünken, T., Baldauf, S. A., Bakker, T. C. M. & Frommen, J. G. (2008): Fish odour triggers conspecific attraction behavior in an aquatic invertebrate. Biology Letters 4: 458-460.
- Baldauf, S. A., Kullmann, H., Winter, S., Thünken, T. & Bakker, T. C. M. (2009): Computer animation as a tool to study preferences in the cichlid fish Pelvicachromis taeniatus. Journal of Fish Biology 75: 738-746.
- Baldauf, S. A., Kullmann, H., Schroth, S. H., Thünken, T. & Bakker T. C. M. (2009): You can’t always get what you want: size assortative mating by mutual mate choice as a resolution of sexual conflict. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9, article number 129.
- Thünken, T., Baldauf, S. A., Kullmann, H., Bakker, T. C. M., Frommen, J.G. (2009): Impact of olfactory non-host predator cues on aggregation behaviour and activity in Polymorphus minutus infected Gammarus pulex. Hydrobiologia 654: 137-145.
- Baldauf, S. A., Bakker, T. C. M., Kullmann, H., Herder, F., Thünken, T. (2010): Male mate choice scales female ornament allometry in a cichlid fish. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10, article number 301.
- Thünken, T., Baldauf, S. A., Kullmann, H., Hesse, S., Schuld, J., Bakker, T. C. M. (2011): Male competitiveness and mating preference in relation to male body size in a cichlid fish. Behavioral Ecology 22: 358–362.
- Baldauf, S. A., Bakker, T. C. M., Kullmann, H., Thünken, T. (2011): Female coloration and its adaptive significance in a mutual mate choice system. Behavioral Ecology 22: 478-485. Reviewed by F1000.
- Meuthen, D., Baldauf, S. A., Bakker, T. C. M. & Thünken, T. (2011) Substrate-treated water: A method to enhance fish activity in laboratory experiments. Aquatic Biology 13: 35-40.
- Thünken, T., Meuthen, D., Bakker, T. C. M. & Baldauf, S. A. (2012): A sex-specific trade-off between mating preferences for genetic compatibility and body size in a cichlid fish with mutual mate choice. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 2959-2964.
- Hesse, S., Bakker, T. C. M., Baldauf, S.A. & Thünken, T. (2012): Kin recognition by phenotype matching is rather family- than self-referential in juvenile cichlid fish. Animal Behaviour 84: 451-457.
- Meuthen, D., Baldauf S. A. & Thünken, T. (2012). Evolution of alarm cues: a role for kin selection? F1000 Research 1:27
- Meuthen, D., Rick, I.P., Thünken, T. & Baldauf S. A. (2012). Visual prey detection by near-infrared cues in a fish. Naturwissenschaften 99: 1063-1066.
- Baldauf, S. A., Engqvist, L., Ottenheym, T., Bakker, T. C. M. & Thünken, T. (2013). Sex-specific conditional mating preferences in a cichlid fish: implications for sexual conflict. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67:1179-1186.
- Thünken, T., Bakker, T. C. M. & Baldauf, S. A. (2014). “Armpit effect” in an African cichlid fish: self-referent kin recognition in mating decisions of male Pelvicachromis taeniatus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68: 99-104.
- Baldauf, S. A., Engqvist, L. & Weissing, F. J. (2014). Diversifying evolution of competitiveness. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6233
- Meuthen, D., Baldauf S. A., Bakker, T. C. M. & Thünken, T. (2016). Predator-induced neophobia in juvenile cichlids. Oecologia 181: 947-958.
- Thünken, T., Hesse, S., Bakker, T. C. M. & Baldauf, S. A. (2016). Benefits of kin shoaling in a cichlid fish: familiar and related juveniles show better growth. Behav. Ecol. 27: 419-425.
- Hesse, S., Bakker, T. C. M., Baldauf, S. A. & Thünken, T. (2016). Impact of social environment on inter- and intra-sexual selection in a cichlid fish with mutual mate choice. Anim. Behav. 111:85-92.
- Meuthen, D., Baldauf S. A., Bakker, T. C. M. & Thünken, T. (2016). Conspecific alarm cues affect interspecific aggression in cichlid fishes. Hydrobiologia 767:37-49.
- Langen, K., Bakker, T. C. M., Baldauf, S.A., Shrestha, J. & Thünken, T. (2016). Effects of aging and inbreeding on the reproductive traits in a cichlid fish I: the male perspective. Biol. J. Linn. Soc.120, 752-761.
- Langen, K., Bakker, T. C. M., Baldauf, S.A., Shrestha, J. & Thünken, T. (2016). Effects of aging and inbreeding on the reproductive traits in a cichlid fish II: the female perspective. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 120, 762-770.
- D. Meuthen, S. A. Baldauf, T. C. M. Bakker, und T. Thünken (2018). Neglected patterns of variation in phenotypic plasticity: Age- and sex-specific antipredator plasticity in a cichlid fish. The American Naturalist 191, no. 4: 475-490.
Akademischer Werdegang
12/2006 – 03/2010 Doktorand: Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, University of Bonn, Germany
03/2010 Doktorarbeit (Titel: “On mutual sexual selection of adaptive secondary sexual traits in the cichlid fish Pelvicachromis taeniatus by applying computer animations”), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany
03/2010 – 09/2011 Post-Doc: Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, University of Bonn, Germany
09/2011 – 12/2012 Auslandsstipendant, Theoretical Biology, University of Groningen, Netherlands
01/2013 – 07/2014 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter: Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, University of Bonn, Germany
08/2014 Gastwissenschaftler: Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, University of Bonn, Germany
Förderungen
09/2011 – 12/2012 Auslandsstipendium, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, BA 4411/1-1)
01/2013 – 06/2013 Rückkehrerstipendium, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, BA 4411/2-1)
06/2014 Reisestipendium des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes (DAAD), New York City, USA
Bewilligte Forschungsprojekte
2013 – 2016 “Causes and consequences of alarm cue-induced antipredator plasticity”, PhD grant (D. Meuthen), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, BA 2855/5-1).
Vorträge
- 2008 “Computer-manipulated visual stimuli as reliable tools for quantifying animal behaviour“, 14th Annual European Meeting of PhD students in Evolutionary Biology, Einsiedeln, Switzerland (first author and speaker)
- 2008 “Function and mechanisms of active inbreeding in a cichlid fish”, 12th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Ithaca, USA
- 2009 “Mutual mate choice in an African cichlid fish: a battleground for sexual conflict over mate quality”, 6th International Tropical Zoology Symposium, Bonn, Germany
2009 “Active inbreeding in a cichlid fish and its adaptive significance”, 6th International Tropical Zoology Symposium, Bonn, Germany - 2009 “Mutual mate choice in an African cichlid fish: a battleground for sexual conflict over mate quality“ 102nd Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft, Regensburg, Germany
- 2010 “Mutual mate choice of secondary sexual traits in the cichlid fish Pelvicachromis taeniatus by applying computer animations”, Seminar talk (invited), Groningen, Netherlands
- 2010 “On mutual mate choice of secondary sexual traits in the cichlid fish Pelvicachromis taeniatus (by applying computer animations)”, Seminar talk (invited), Vienna, Austria, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology
- 2010 “The relative importance of relatedness and quality traits in mate choice”, 103rd Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft, Hamburg, Germany
- 2010 “Alternative reproductive tactics in the West African cichlid Pelvicachromis taeniatus?”, 16th Annual European Meeting of PhD students in Evolutionary Biology, Wierzba, Poland
- 2011 “On mutual mate choice in the cichlid fish Pelvicachromis taeniatus (by applying computer animations)”, Seminar talk (invited), University of Bielefeld, Germany
- 2011 “Sex-specific conditional strategies drive interlocus sexual conflict”, 104th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft, Saarbrücken, Germany
- 2011 “Mate choice trade-offs in a cichlid fish with mutual mate choice”, 13th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Tübingen, Germany
- 2012 “Sexy males vs. caring fathers: the joint evolution of ornamentation and paternal care”, 1st Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Ottawa, Canada
- 2012 “Sexy males vs. caring fathers: the joint evolution of ornamentation and paternal care”, 14th International Behavioral Ecology Congress, Lund, Sweden
- 2012 “Kin-biased behaviour and its consequences in juveniles of a cichlid fish”, 14th International Behavioral Ecology Congress, Lund, Sweden
- 2013 “Visual signals in a biparental cichlid fish (Pelvicachromis taeniatus)”, University of Hohenheim (invited)
- 2013 “Evolutionary dynamics of competitiveness”, 106th Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG), Munich (2013), Germany
- 2014 “Intra- and intersexual selection – ingredients for the evolution of genetic polymorphisms”, University of Bielefeld, Germany
- 2014 “Intra- and intersexual selection in a cichlid fish – ingredients for the evolution of genetic polymorphisms”, University of Bern, Switzerland
- 2014 “Diversifying evolution of competitiveness”, 15th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, New York, USA
- 2016 „Die Rolle von Webperformance und Pagespeed bei Bildern für Makler und Sachverständige in der Immobilienbewertung“ Tagung der GfI, Köln