Ludwig Huber (biologist)

Ludwig Huber ( born July 25, 1964 in Neunkirchen, Lower Austria ) is behavioral biologist, cognitive scientist and professor at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.

Life

Huber studied in Vienna biology, philosophy and theory of science and became an assistant to Rupert Riedl. Huber received his doctorate in 1991 and his habilitation in 2000 at the University of Vienna. He specialized in the study of perception and cognition abilities of animals and worked with different types such as pigeons, Keas, dogs and marmosets. In addition, he conducted between 1995 and 2003 showing, the Department for Theoretical Biology at the Institute of Zoology at the University of Vienna. In 2005 he established the research focus Cognitive Biology at the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna.

Since 2010, he headed the co-founded by his Department of Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna; Since October 2011 he has been Professor of Scientific Principles of animal welfare and the human-animal relationship focus Comparative Cognition Messerli in the Institute for Human- animal relationships, which was based at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna.

Huber is a member of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg near Vienna and since 2005 visiting professor at the Charles University in Prague.

Writings

• Figures, concepts, and nonverbal concepts. A comparative study täubischer and human categorization. PhD thesis, Vienna 1991.
• Visual categorization in pigeons. Habilitation thesis, Vienna 2000.
• As the new comes into the world. Phase transitions in nature and culture. WUV, Wien 2000, ISBN 3-85114-549-6. - As editor