Dr. Jos Kramer
Dr. Jos Kramer
Staff of Professorship for Evolutionary Biology
Additional information
Research area
I am broadly interested in the ecology of group living.
My current research combines evolution experiments with phenotypic and metagenomic approaches to unravel how diverse predators of microbes (e.g., myxobacteria, BALOs and nematodes) shape complex prey communities.
EXPERIENCE
06.2022 - present | Postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Topic: “Unraveling the effects of deeply divergent predators on the evolution of microbial communities”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Gregory J. Velicer.
11.2021-05.2022 | Visiting researcher at Uni Zurich, Switzerland
Topic: “The impact of siderophore-based interaction networks on community productivity”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Rolf Kümmerli.
01.2017-04.2021 | Postdoctoral researcher at Uni Zurich, Switzerland
Topic: “The multidimensionality of social interactions in natural Pseudomonas communities”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Rolf Kümmerli.
EDUCATION
05.2013-01.2017 | PhD in life sciences at Uni Mainz, Germany
Thesis: “Influence of ecology and social interactions on the early evolution of family life”, supervised by Dr. Joël Meunier.
10.2006-11.2012 | Graduate biology degree (Diplom) at Uni Freiburg, Germany
Thesis: “Aggressive behavior in groups of the cooperatively breeding El-Oro-Parakeet (Pyrrhura orcesi)”, supervised by PD Dr. H. Martin Schaefer.