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Dr. Rebecca Rimbach

Current affiliations

  • Professorship of Behavioural Biology (Prof. Dammhahn)
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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Behavioural and physiological adjustemts to human-induced rapid environmental change
  • Energy expenditure
  • Eco-physiology
  • Endocrinology

Academic Education

2010 - 2013Dr. rer. nat., Georg-August Universität of Göttingen, German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research
2005 - 2010Diploma in Biology, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany
2004 - 2005ERASMUS, University of Manchester, U.K.
2002 - 2004Diploma in Biology, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany

Work Experience

since 10/2022Senior postdoctoral associate, Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster, Germany
2019 - 2021Postdoctoral associate, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, USA
2017 - 2018Claude Leon Postdoctoral fellow, School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
2014 - 2016Postdoctoral fellow, School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Functions and Memberships

since 12/2023Member, German Zoological Society
since 2015Mitglied, Ethologische Gesellschaft, Fachgesellschaft
since 2008Mitglied, Gesellschaft für Primatologie (GfP), Fachgesellschaft
2021Editorial Board Member, Special Issue Review Editor at Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
2019 - 2021Mitlgied, American Association of Biological Anthropologists

Publications

The function of plants collected by bush Karoo rats (Otomys unisulcatus): Do dried up food plants represent stored food?
Sangweni, SP; Pillay, Neville; Ganzhorn, J; Rimbach, Rebecca; Schradin, Carsten; Makuya, Lindelani  (2025)
In: Journal of Arid Environments, 229.
Research article (journal)
City life does not change a small mammal community composition
Rimbach, Rebecca; Heinze, Kerrin; Poorthuis, Lars; Petit, Jules; Dammhahn, Melanie (2025)
In: Wildlife Research, 52.
Research article (journal)
Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: results from a 20-year-long case study in African striped mice
Schradin, Carsten; Pillay, Neville; Rimbach, Rebecca (2025)
In: Journal of Zoology, tbd.
Review article (journal)
Increased physical activity is not related to markers of cardiometabolic health in two lemur species
Rimbach, R; Pontzer, Herman (2024)
In: American Journal of Primatology, 86.
Research article (journal)
Population genomic structure of a widespread, urban-dwelling mammal: The eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
Fusco, Nicole A; Cosentino, Bradley J; Gibbs, James P; Allen, Maximilian L; Blumenfeld, Alexander J; Boettner, George H; Carlen, Elizabeth J; Collins, Merri; Dennison, Catherine; Digiacopo, Devin; Fyffe, Rebecca; Gallo, Travis; Grant, Alannah; Harbold, William; Marino, Shealyn; Mcdonald, John E; Mortelliti, Alessio; Murray, Maureen; Richardson, Jonathan L; Rimbach, Rebecca; Salaman, Paul; Steele, Michael; Vanderluit, Sean N; Vezina, Lucie; Caccone, Adalgisa (2024)
In: Molecular Ecology, 33.
Research article (journal)
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