Spokesperson (selection process)
Behavioural Biology Section, German Zoological Society
Ahana Aurora Fernandez
Research Interests
Animal behaviour • Bioacoustics • Biolinguistics • Neuroethology • Vocal Learning • Social Learning • Vocal Ontogeny
Social Learning &
Vocal Communication Lab
In this lab, we study animal vocal communication and social learning. In particular, we investigate vocal ontogenetic processes, the underlying mechanisms of vocal learning, and the impact of the social environment on vocal development and learning. We study these topics in bats and hummingbirds.
University of Münster
Smithsonian Research Associate
Emmy Noether Grant (DFG)
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Field Research
Where the Work Happens
Studying vocal communication in the wild, in the Neotropics and Germany.
Soberanía National Park
Panama Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Primary site for Emballonuridae bats and hummingbird research
Bavaria
Forschungspreis Wildtier Stiftung in collaboration with LBV - Landesbund für Vogel- und Naturschutz in Bayern e.V and Fledermaushaus Hohenburg and Banzerhaus
Research on Greater and Lesser Horseshoe Bats
University of Münster
Germany
Fernandez Lab
Photo: Ralf Günther / FVB
About Me
Behavioural Biologist.
Bioacoustician.
I am an Emmy Noether Group Leader at the Institute of Neuro- and Behavioural Biology at the University of Münster.
As a behavioural biologist, I specialize in bioacoustics and biolinguistics. My research focuses on (social) vocal communication, exploring how and why animals communicate and how complex vocal systems evolve. I am particularly interested in vocal ontogenetic processes and the proximate factors and ultimate causes of vocal learning.
Vocal learning is a key factor in human language and infant speech acquisition — hence, my research questions also forged my interest in biolinguistics: the study of the biological foundations of human language in non-human animals.
I believe that understanding a complex trait like the ability of vocal learning requires studying vocal ontogenetic processes in the wild, allowing us to observe how different factors of the social environment influence learning. Therefore, I study bats and hummingbirds in their natural habitats in Central America and Europe.
By integrating ethology, bioacoustics, neuroethology, and endocrinology, I take a multidisciplinary approach to studying vocal ontogeny and learning.
On September 1, 2025, I started my own Lab in Münster and am welcoming dedicated and curious students. Feel free to contact me.
Vocal Learning
Bioacoustics
Biolinguistics
Vocal Ontogeny
Social Communication
Chiroptera
Trochilidae
Neuroethology
Endocrinology
Research Projects
From Babbling to Singing
Investigating vocal communication, ontogeny, and social learning across two extraordinary and contrasting systems: highly social vocal-learning mammals such as bats and largely solitary hummingbirds with extraordinary vocal capacities
Bats
The greater sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx bilineata) is one of the few mammals exhibiting vocal learning. Pups produce babbling behaviour strikingly similar to human infant babbling. My research investigates the ontogeny of their complex vocal repertoire, the role of maternal feedback, and the neural substrates of vocal production.
Explore Bat Research →
Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds are among the few avian lineages capable of vocal learning. I study the vocal communication and learning processes in Neotropical hummingbird species, exploring how high-pitched vocalizations are produced, learned, and used in social contexts across their natural habitats in Central America.
Explore Hummingbird Research →
Publications
Publications
Preprints
2026
Socially transmitted knowledge of hibernation sites in bats
bioRxiv
(+equal contribution, *shared corresponding author)
doi: 10.64898/2026.08.06.743314 ↗Under Review
Under review
High-frequency hummingbird vocalizations are extreme during courtship displays, but have multiple functions
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
In Preparation
In preparation
Linking Social Contingency to Individual Vocal Development Across Species: A Multidimensional Framework for Understanding Shared and Species-Specific Features of the Developmental System
(+joint last authors)
In preparation
From natural history to neuroecology: Carollia perspicillata as an integrative model system
(+joint first authors)
Published publications
2025
Fighting and flirting: the vocal repertoire of the Greater Mouse-eared Bat (Myotis myotis) within mating roosts and its seasonal variation
Animal Behaviour, 232
doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123440 ↗
2025
Maternal behavior influences vocal practice and learning processes in the greater sac-winged bat
eLife 13:RP99474.2
doi: 10.7554/eLife.99474.2 ↗
2024
Observations of a greater sac-winged bat pup (Saccopteryx bilineata) with a chromatic disorder
Mammalia, 88
doi: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0170 ↗
2024
Maternal behavior influences vocal practice and learning processes in the greater sac-winged bat
bioRxiv, 2024.05.20.594963 (preprint)
2022
Vocal ontogenetic processes in bat pups. From babbling behavior to the interplay of social and vocal complexity
Freie Universität Berlin
2021
Cross-species parallels in babbling: animals and algorithms
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376 (1836), 20200239
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0239 ↗
2021
Babbling in a vocal learning bat resembles human infant babbling
Science 373 (6557), 923-926
doi: 10.1126/science.abf9279 ↗
2021
Social behaviour and vocalizations of the tent-roosting Honduran white bat
PLOS ONE 16 (8), e0248452
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248452 ↗
2020
Do bats have the necessary prerequisites for symbolic communication?
Frontiers in Psychology 11, 571678
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.571678 ↗
2020
Pup directed vocalizations of adult females and males in a vocal learning bat
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8, 265
doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00265 ↗
2020
Vocal information and the navigation of social decisions in bats: is social complexity linked to vocal complexity?
Functional Ecology 34 (2), 322-331
doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13407 ↗
2017
Isolation calls of the bat Saccopteryx bilineata encode multiple messages
Animal Behavior and Cognition 4, 169-186
doi: 10.12966/abc.04.05.2017
2017
Alternative reproductive tactics, sperm mobility and oxidative stress in Carollia perspicillata
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71, 1-12
doi: 10.1007/s00265-016-2251-7 ↗
2016
Sexually selected vocalizations of Neotropical bats
Sociality in Bats, 179-195. Cham: Springer International Publishing
2014
When bats are boxing: aggressive behaviour and communication in male Seba's short-tailed fruit bat
Animal Behaviour 98, 149-156
doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.10.011 ↗
2014
Animated images as a tool to study visual communication: a case study in a cooperatively breeding cichlid
Behaviour 151 (12-13), 1921-1942
doi: 10.1163/1568539X-00003223 ↗
Research Network
Collaborators & Partners
Mirjam Knörnschild
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin · MfN Berlin · STRI
Bat social vocal communication and learning
Martina Nagy
Museum of Natural History Berlin
Social structure and mating systems of Emballonurids
Simon Ripperger
Museum of Natural History Berlin
Social behaviour of bats
Rachel Page
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Social learning and behaviour of Neotropical bats
Julio Hechavarria
Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) Frankfurt am Main
Neural substrates of vocal production in bats
Jeroen Van Der Kooij
Naturformidling van der Kooij
Vocal ontogeny of E. nilssonii
Sophie Holtz
Freie Universität Berlin
Neuromolecular mechanisms of vocal production
News
April 2026
Wiebke Berns Has Joined the Lab!
Wiebke Berns is studying the social behaviour and acoustic communication of the fascinating Greater horseshoe bats. In June and July, she will dive into fieldwork in Bavaria, at the Fledermaushaus Hohenburg. I am so curious what she will be discovering and describing! Welcome Wiebke!
April 2026
Mentoring-Programm ERSTKLASSIG!
I have been accepted into the mentoring program ERSTKLASSIG! offered by the University of Münster. “Erstklassig!” is an 18-month fellowship program aimed at outstanding postdocs, researchers preparing for their habilitation, those who have completed their habilitation, and assistant professors from all departments at the University of Münster, offering them targeted support on their path to a professorship.
The program aims to facilitate the exchange of experiences and expertise with experienced female professors (self-selected mentors), support individual career planning through mentoring and workshops, and prepare participants for research and leadership roles. It also promotes peer mentoring and networking among female researchers.
February 2026
Tinbergen Award 2026
I have been awarded the prestigious Tinbergen Award 2026 of the Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. It is an absolute honor to be included in the list of fantastic researchers who got the prize before me. I am invited to give a talk about my research before officially receiving the award at the ECBB.
January 2026
Forschungspreis 2025 der Deutschen Wildtier Stiftung
A long-term research project is now possible: I was awarded the Forschungspreis der Deutschen Wildtier Stiftung and this allows me to investigate the social and vocal lives of the Greater and Lesser Horseshoe bats in Bavaria. So excited about this opportunity!
Learn more about the Forschungspreis →
The German Wildlife Foundation is dedicated to giving a voice to native wildlife. Through its work, it helps raise awareness of the beauty and wonder of natural life and works to counteract the growing disconnect from nature.
Visit the website and learn about the wide range of projects and initiatives. It’s well worth it... Deutsche Wildtier Stiftung →
July 2025
Appointed Research Associate at STRI
I was appointed Research Associate at the renowned Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). Having worked with STRI since 2015, it is an honor to now be officially affiliated with this amazing tropical research institution. I look forward to a fruitful and exciting collaboration.
January 2025
Emmy Noether Grant Awarded
I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded the prestigious Emmy Noether grant from the DFG. This funding will allow me to establish my own lab and continue investigating vocal learning and communication in bats.
Outreach & Media
I consider science communication to be an important task of a scientist in order to explain research results to the general public and promote interest in research and the conservation of nature. I enjoy doing outreach in different formats such as interviews, guided tours and lectures.
The Fernandez Lab
Meet the TeamUniversity of Münster
Our interdisciplinary team investigates the fascinating world of vocal learning and communication — from the molecular mechanisms of vocal production to the social dynamics of bat colonies in tropical forests.
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M.Sc. Candidate
Natalia Adamowska
Free University of Berlin
Vocal signatures in contact calls of the Greater mouse-eared bat
Natalia Adamowska began researching the acoustic communication and social behaviour of maternity colonies of the Greater mouse-eared bat for her Bachelor's thesis. She patiently observed the bats and their social interactions in their day-roosts during pup development and recorded their vocalisations. For her master's project, Natalia is currently analysing a call produced mainly when bats were approaching or leaving a roost, and when young bats started to become flight-ready. She is investigating whether this so-called contact call carries a vocal signature that encodes information on social group membership.
02
M.Sc. Candidate
Wiebke Berns
University of Münster
Acoustic Communication and Social Behaviour of Rhinolophus ferrumequinum in a Maternity Colony
Bavaria currently hosts the only known maternity colony of the Greater Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum. In her master’s thesis, Wiebke Berns combines behavioural observations with simultaneous acoustic recordings to investigate the species’ vocal communication and social behaviour.
03
Research Assistant
Jimena Jara
University of Münster
The neuromolecular foundations of mammalian vocal production learning
Jimena Jara is currently involved in a project which aims to investigate speech-relevant gene expression (e.g. FoxP2) and immediate early genes (i.e. neural activity) in the vocal learning bat Saccopteryx bilineata. She is currently using free-floating in situ hybridisation to analyse a dataset including brain tissue from three contexts: learning, vocal production, and silence.
Open Positions
Join the Lab
I am welcoming dedicated and curious students to the Fernandez Lab at the University of Münster. If you are passionate about vocal learning, bioacoustics, or animal communication, I would love to hear from you.
Activities
Administrative Role
Since 2022
Organizational Activities
Since 2023
Organization of multiple animal graduate meetings and satellite symposia
Editorial Activities
Since 2025
Guest Editor
Special issue Ethology
Special issue Ethology
Awards & Fellowships
Fellowships
2026
“Erstklassig!” scholarship (18 months)
University of Münster – competitive women career-development programme toward professorship
University of Münster – competitive women career-development programme toward professorship
2025
Emmy Noether Programme (DFG)
Independent junior research group leader
Independent junior research group leader
2025
Forschungspreis der Deutschen Wildtier Stiftung
For an independent two-year project on native wildlife research
For an independent two-year project on native wildlife research
2016–2019
Elsa Neumann Fellowship
Full doctoral fellowship
Full doctoral fellowship
Awards
2026
Niko Tinbergen Award
Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.
Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.
2022
Marthe-Vogt Award (Dissertation award)
Forschungsverbund Berlin
Forschungsverbund Berlin
Curriculum Vitae
Academic CV
Ahana Aurora Fernandez — Emmy Noether Group Leader, Behavioural Biologist, Bioacoustician & Biolinguist.
Academic Positions
2025 →
Emmy Noether Group Leader
Own lab at the University of Münster, Institute of Neuro- and Behavioural Biology (started September 1, 2025)
Own lab at the University of Münster, Institute of Neuro- and Behavioural Biology (started September 1, 2025)
2025
Research Associate
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
2020–2024
Postdoctoral Researcher
Museum of Natural History Berlin, Germany
Museum of Natural History Berlin, Germany
Education
2015–2020
Doctoral Student, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Doctoral Thesis (summa cum laude): „Vocal ontogenetic processes in bat pups – From babbling behaviour to the interplay of social and vocal complexity"
supervised by Prof. M. Knörnschild, second Advisor: Prof. Constance Scharff
Doctoral Thesis (summa cum laude): „Vocal ontogenetic processes in bat pups – From babbling behaviour to the interplay of social and vocal complexity"
supervised by Prof. M. Knörnschild, second Advisor: Prof. Constance Scharff
2012–2015
Research Assistant
Various scientific projects at the University of Bern and the Natural History Museum Bern, Switzerland
Various scientific projects at the University of Bern and the Natural History Museum Bern, Switzerland
2012–2014
Master of Science (summa cum laude), University of Bern, Switzerland
With a special qualification in Evolutionary Ecology, supervised by Prof. H. Richner
Thesis: Aggressive behaviour and communication in the bat, Carollia perspicillata
With a special qualification in Evolutionary Ecology, supervised by Prof. H. Richner
Thesis: Aggressive behaviour and communication in the bat, Carollia perspicillata
2008–2012
Bachelor of Science (magna cum laude), University of Bern, Switzerland
With a special qualification in Evolutionary Ecology
With a special qualification in Evolutionary Ecology
Awards & Fellowships
2026
“Erstklassig!” scholarship (18 months)
University of Münster – competitive women career-development programme toward professorship
University of Münster – competitive women career-development programme toward professorship
2026
Niko Tinbergen Award
Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.
Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.
2025
Forschungspreis der Deutschen Wildtier Stiftung
(for independent 2-years project on research on native wildlife)
(for independent 2-years project on research on native wildlife)
2025
Emmy Noether Programme (DFG Germany)
Programme for leading an independent junior research group
Programme for leading an independent junior research group
2022
Marthe-Vogt Award
Of the „Forschungsverbund Berlin" for an outstanding young female scientist
Of the „Forschungsverbund Berlin" for an outstanding young female scientist
2016–2019
Elsa Neumann Fellowship
Full fellowship for doctoral students
Full fellowship for doctoral students
Research Projects
PI
Mastering Communication
Emmy Noether Grant, DFG
PI
From birth to courtship: An acoustic journey through the life of horseshoe bats
Deutsche Wildtierstiftung, 2026–2028
Co-Lead
Hummingbird Harmonies: The Fascinating World of High-pitched Vocalizations
STRI, with Dr. Jay Falk, University of Colorado Boulder
Collaborative Partner
Wochenstuben des Großen Mausohrs als Zentren sozialen Lernens
PI: Dr. S. Ripperger
Supervision & Teaching
- 2026 → Teaching research module “Basics in Bat Biology, with specialization in Bioacoustics”
- 2026 → PI in doctoral program “Münster Graduate School for Evolution” (MGSE)
- 2026 → Supervision of Master Thesis of Wiebke Berns (University of Münster) — “Acoustic Communication and Social Behaviour of Rhinolophus ferrumequinum in a Maternity Colony”
- 2025 → Supervision of Master Thesis of Natalia Adamowska (FU Berlin) — “Vocal signatures in contact calls of the Greater mouse-eared bat”
- 2023–2024 Co-supervision of two interns, Michelle Negrette Bohorquez and Sadoni James, from the STRI intern program — "Hummingbird Harmonies: The Fascinating World of High-pitched Vocalizations"
- 2023–2024 Co-supervision of Bachelor Thesis of Natalia Adamowska (FU Berlin) — "The vocal repertoire of maternal colonies of the Greater Mouse-eared bat"
- 2021 Co-supervision of field work in Costa Rica of master student Marisa Tietge (FU Berlin)
- 2019–2021 Mentoring of master student Simon Hiller (University of Bern) — "Automated syllable type classification of babbling sequences of the neotropical bat Saccopteryx bilineata based on neuronal networks" (MSc in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology)
- Apr 2018 Workshop for bachelor students "Analysis of vocalizations – from data collection to acoustic analysis", conducted at the Department of Comparative Developmental Psychology. Invited by Prof. Dr. K. Liebal, Free University of Berlin
- 2018 Co-supervision of bachelor thesis of Sarah-Cecil Fabian (FU Berlin) — "Mother-pup communication of the greater sac-winged bat"
- 2017–2018 Internship supervision of Madita Richter (FU Berlin) — "Acoustic analysis of maternal bat calls"
- 2017–2018 Co-supervision of master thesis of Nora Lena Serve (FU Berlin) — "Maternal influences on vocal repertoire ontogeny in Saccopteryx bilineata" (including supervision of field stay in Panama)
Invited Talks
- Sept 2026 Tinbergen Prize Plenary talk: “Social learning and vocal communication in bats” — Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
- Nov 2025 „Mastering Communication in the Greater Sac-winged bat" — Tupper Seminar, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá
- Mar 2025 „From babbling to lifelong communication: learning processes in the greater sac-winged bat" — Princeton University, New Jersey, US
- Aug 2024 „Learning to communicate: from the field to the lab" — Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin
- Jul 2024 Invited talk at Freie Universität Berlin as part of the student's course "Bats in the City"
- Feb 2024 "Bats as a model for biolinguistics: Exploring vocal ontogeny and learning processes" — Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria
- Nov 2023 "Vocal Ontogeny and Learning in Bats: An Animal Model for Biolinguistics" (competitive application) — Emerging Scientist Series, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence
- Oct 2023 "Learning to Communicate: Vocal Development in Greater Sac-Winged Bats" — Bioacoustic community, University of Zürich
- Sep 2023 "From Babbling to Singing: Vocal development in the Greater sac-winged bat" — Bats without Borders, Winged Wednesday Webinar Series
- Jun 2023 "Animal experimental research and animal welfare: working with wild bats" — University of Bielefeld
- May 2023 "Bats: A promising taxon for exploring complex vocal communication and learning" — Virtual songbird satellite session, Queens College, CUNY
- Apr 2023 "Social communication in bats: from babbling to singing" — Princeton "Tropical Ecology field course", STRI, Gamboa, Panama
- Oct 2022 "From babbling to singing: vocal communication of the greater sac-winged bat" — Symposium "Mind your language", Sainsbury Wellcome Centre / GCNU, University College London
- Feb 2022 "Learning how to communicate: the case study of the Greater sac-winged bat" — Forschungsinstitut für Nutztierbiologie, Celle, Germany
- Nov 2021 "From babbling Bats to Brains" — Winter Lab, Humboldt University Berlin
- Oct 2021 "From babbling Bats to Brains: Vocal ontogenetic processes in Saccopteryx bilineata" — Park Lab, University of Illinois, USA
- Sep 2021 "Vocal ontogenetic processes in the greater sac-winged bat" — Nick Jourjine seminar, Hoekstra Lab, Oxford, "Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics"
Academic Services
2022 →
Spokesperson
Selection process, Behavioural Biology Section, German Zoological Society
2023–2026
Organizer
Multiple graduate meetings and satellite symposia
2025 →
Guest Editor
Special issue Wildlife in Urban Spaces, Ethology
Ongoing
Reviewer
For 10+ journals including Animal Behaviour, Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, Proceedings B, and JASA
Outreach: Workshops, Talks & Events
- Aug 2023 International Batnight at Spreepark — Public outreach event with German sign language interpreters; featured by Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg television
- Aug 2022 Babbelnde Fledermauskinder — Batnight Augsburg, Germany
- 2021 → 9 workshops „Fledermäuse im Spreepark" — Including outreach talk on bats and guided bioacoustic monitoring tour
- Aug 2020 Fledermaus Aktionstag — In collaboration with artist Ines Theileis, Bühne Nirgendwo, Berlin
- Jul 2020 Bat night at Bat Museum Julianenhof — Public outreach on echolocation, communication, and acoustic recording
- Jun 2019 Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft — „Fledermausnacht: Auf den Spuren der Nachtjäger", Natural History Museum Berlin
- Mar 2019 Girls' Day — Interactive event for young female scholars, Natural History Museum Berlin
- Apr 2018 KiezNerds — Public event, Berlin
- Jun 2018 Geo Tag der Natur — Outreach event in Thüringen, invited bat expert
- 2013–2015 Workshops for children and school classes — Ecology and animal behaviour, Naturzentrum Eichholz, Bern, Switzerland
Certifications
Certified Bat Marking
LfULG, Germany, 2023
FELASA B Laboratory Animal Science
Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, 2019
Basics of Science Communication
National Institute for Science Communication, Germany, 2023
Selected Conference Contributions
Fernandez AA, Scharff, C & Knörnschild M (2023) Saccopteryx bilineata: A Promising Candidate for Exploring Neuronal Substrates of Vocal Learning (Poster). German Zoological Society Meeting 2023, Kassel, Germany
Fernandez AA, Knörnschild M (2023) The Greater Sac-winged Bat: A mammalian model for Biolinguistic Research (Talk). Fellow Symposium, STRI, Panama City
Fernandez AA, Serve NL, Fabian S-C & Knörnschild M (2023) Maternal feedback shapes vocal practice and learning processes in the Greater sac-winged bat (Talk). Behaviour Conference, Bielefeld, Germany
Fernandez AA, Harder J, Itterman L, Mayer F, Ripperger S (2023) Maternity roosts of the Greater mouse-eared bat Myotis myotis: Important centers of social learning? (Talk). National Bat Research Conference, Bern, Switzerland
Fernandez AA, Knörnschild M (2022) Babbling behavior: shared vocal ontogenetic features in bat pups and human infants (Talk). Joint Conference on Language Evolution, Japan
Fernandez AA, Knörnschild M (2022) Babbling in bat pups and human infants: shared features in an extraordinary vocal practice behavior (Talk). Animal Behaviour Society, USA
Fernandez AA, Knörnschild M (2021) Baby talk in bats: pup directed vocalizations in the greater sac-winged bat (Talk). Animal Behaviour Society, USA
Fernandez AA, Knörnschild M (2019) Babbling in bat pups and human infants: A key element during vocal development (Talk). International Bioacoustics Congress, Brighton, England
Fernandez AA, Knörnschild M (2019) The role of social interactions on vocal ontogeny in the babbling bat Saccopteryx bilineata (Talk). International Bat Research Conference, Phuket, Thailand
Fernandez AA, Knörnschild M (2017) Phonological syntax in babbling bouts of Saccopteryx bilineata (Poster). 5th International Berlin Bat Meeting, Berlin, Germany
Fernandez AA, Knörnschild M (2016) Multiple messages in isolation calls of Saccopteryx bilineata (Talk). 12th Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society (ETHOGES), German Primate Research Center (DPZ), Göttingen, Germany
Fernandez AA (2015) Aggressive behaviour and communication in the frugivorous bat Carollia perspicillata: a playback experiment (Talk). DZG Graduate Meeting in Animal Behaviour, University of Vienna, Austria
Get in Touch
Let's Connect
Interested in my research, collaborations or future projects?
Whether you are a prospective student, a fellow researcher, or interested in science outreach — I'd love to hear from you.
University
ahana.fernandez@uni-muenster.de
ORCID
0000-0002-4298-4736
Personal
fernandez.aurora.ahana@gmail.com
Bluesky
@ahanaaurora.bsky.social
Current Affiliations
Emmy Noether Group Leader
Institute of Neuro- and Behavioural Biology
University of Münster
Badestraße 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
Institute of Neuro- and Behavioural Biology
University of Münster
Badestraße 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
Research Associate
Center for Animal Behavior
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Panama
Center for Animal Behavior
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Panama
Guest researcher
Museum of Natural History Berlin, Germany
Museum of Natural History Berlin, Germany