Prof. Almut Kelber
I was born in the beautiful city of Freiburg. After school, I lived a year in Norway, before I studied biology at the Universities of Mainz and Tübingen, with majors in animal physiology, botany, electronics and psychology. I got my Diploma (1989) and my PhD (1993) at the Biocybernetics Department at the University of Tübingen. For my Diploma thesis, I studied honeybee landmark orientation at the University of Sussex, and for my PhD thesis, I studied flight control and visual orientation in a stingless bee, in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil.
After the birth of Sebastian (1993) and Helena (1994) I started a new project and studied hawkmoth colour vision which turned out to be extremely fascinating. In 1997, the entire family moved to Canberra. where I turned to orchard butterflies and their complex colour vision system. In 1998, I joined the Vision Group in Lund where I now work as a Professor of Sensory Biology.
I am interested in general principles of colour vision and have been working on many different animals including horses, seals, geckos, birds, butterflies, moths and bees. One of my special interests is the threshold of colour vision in dim light.
I am living in Lund with my partner Michael Pfaff who is a science journalist, our children, two cats and changing numbers of butterflies and moths. I enjoy the wonderful university town of Lund, the Swedish landscape and the Scandinavian way of life.
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