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This is my CV.
Basics
| Name | Stefan Popp |
| Label | Scientist |
| popp@arizona.edu | |
| Phone | +49 174 580 9939 |
| Url | https://StefanMPopp.github.io/ |
| Summary | A biologist-trained data scientist |
Work
- 2017.08 - 2023.08
Research Scientist
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
Thesis on ant search strategies for targets of unkown location.
- Time series analysis
Education
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2017.08 - 2023.08 Tucson, AZ
PhD
University of Arizona
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
- Ant search strategies for targets of unkown location
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2015.09 - 2017.07 Wurzburg, Germany
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2011.09 - 2015.07 Wurzburg, Germany
Awards
- 2022.06.01
Galileo Circle Fellowship
Galileo Circle
The Galileo Circle awards scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate exceptional potential in the physical, mathematical, environmental, cognitive, or life sciences. $1000.'
- 2021.06.01
Galileo Circle Fellowship
Galileo Circle
The Galileo Circle awards scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate exceptional potential in the physical, mathematical, environmental, cognitive, or life sciences. $1000.'
Publications
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In print Searching ants walk slower and less straight on chemical footprints, but indirect effects are large
Insectes Sociaux
Ants show large variation of where and how they explore. They are also very sensitive to chemical cues on the surface. These 2 things are probably more important than any pheromone communication for coordination.
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2023.10.27 Ant colonies explore novel environments with more slower, curvier walks, particularly near the nest
Insectes Sociaux
On the 1st day in a new environment, there are additional ant trips done near the nest (<1m) compared to the 2nd and 3rd days.
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2023.01.27 Ants combine systematic meandering and correlated random walks when searching for unknown resources
iScience
Ants turn somewhat regularly left & right while maintaining some stochasticity. This helps them cover an area efficiently and probably robustly.
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2022.03.18 Alignment with neighbors enables escape from dead ends in flocking models
J Royal Soc Interf
Agents swarming according to a classical model can escape a dead-end obstacle in the way to their goal without specialized behaviors if they are aligned enough.
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2018.09.30 No evidence for tactile communication of direction in foraging Lasius ants
Insectes Sociaux
A returning ant doesn't tell the outgoing one whether to turn left or right at a bifurcation
Skills
| Data Science | |
| Analysis | |
| Visualization | |
| Hypothesis testing | |
| Statistical models |
| Technical | |
| MATLAB | |
| Python | |
| R | |
| SQL | |
| bash | |
| Excel |
| Other | |
| Video Editing (Premiere Pro) | |
| ffmpeg | |
| Behavioral experiment | |
| Object tracking |
Languages
| German | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |
| French | |
| Beginner/Intermediate |
| Spanish | |
| Beginner |
Interests
| Languages | |
| DE, EN, FR, ES | |
| Comprehensible Input | |
| Linguistics |
| Bikepacking | |
| 2015: Wurzburg-Brombachsee-Wurzburg, 3d | |
| 2015: Wurzburg-Avignon, 14d | |
| 2023: Avignon-Toulouse, 5d |
References
| Professor Anna Dornhaus | |
| PhD Advisor |
| Professor Helen McCreery | |
| Collaborator on the swarm obstacle project |
Projects
- 2024.03 - 2024.04
ReSQL
Performing analysis on the resampling dataset with SQL and visualizing results in Power BI
- SQL
- Power BI
Volunteer
- 2022.05 - 2023.05
Green Team
Lightning In a Bottle
Picked up and managed trash at a music festival.
- Awarded 'Climate Hero' award by Greenpeace for my efforts organizing the march.
- Men of the year 2014 by Time magazine
Certificates
| None | ||
| Stanford University | 2011-01-01 |