Jos Kramer: Curriculum Vitae

2025 – present

Research Group Leader | ERC Starting Grant Fellow

Department of Evolutionary Animal Ecology, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Topic: “The role of animal-microbe interactions in the early evolution of animal social life”, hosted by Prof. Dr. Sandra Steiger

2022 – 2025

Postdoctoral researcher

Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Topic: “Unraveling the effects of deeply divergent predators on the evolution of microbial communities”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Gregory J. Velicer

2017 – 2021

Postdoctoral researcher

Department of Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Topic: “The multidimensionality of social interactions in natural Pseudomonas communities”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Rolf Kümmerli

2013 – 2017

PhD in life sciences (summa cum laude)

Institute for Organismic and Molecular Evolution, University of Mainz, Germany

Thesis: “Influence of ecology and social interactions on the early evolution of family life”, supervised by Dr. Joël Meunier (date of doctoral viva: 17.01.2017)

2006 – 2012

Graduate biology degree (Diplom)

University of Freiburg, Germany

Major subject: Evolutionary Biology and Animal Ecology

Minor subjects: Animal Behavior, Developmental Biology, and Anthropology

Thesis: “Aggressive behavior in groups of the cooperatively breeding El-Oro-Parakeet (Pyrrhura orcesi)”, supervised by PD Dr. H. Martin Schaefer