since December 2021

Research Assistant, Institute of Behavioural Physiology, Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany

since December 2021

PhD Student in Agricultural Sciences and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Rostock, Germany

2021

Master of Science in Developmental, Neural and Behavioural Biology at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany

Thesis: Pilot study: Do dwarf goats (Capra hircus) act altruistic in a feeding context?

2018

Bachelor of Science in Biology at the University of Bremen, Germany

Thesis: A behavioral analysis of the ridden horse:

Does the head neck position of the horse affects its conflict behavior?

Nawroth, C., Rault, J.-L., Deutsch, J., Pahl, A., Langbein, J.: Taking a species’ ecology into account in farm animal cognition research. Invited symposium talk presented at the Behaviour, Bielefeld, Germany in August 2023

Pahl, A., König von Borstel, U., Brucks, D.: Llamas use social information from conspecifics and humans to solve a spatial detour task. Anim Cogn (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-023-01808-8

Pahl, A., Nawroth, C., Rault, J-L., McGetrick, J., Langbein, J.: Dwarf goats show altruistic behaviour in a novel food giving paradigm. Conference Presentation at the 54. International Congress on Applied Ethology of the German Veterinary Society 2022, Freiburg, Germany in November 2022

November 2023

Pahl, A., Rault, J.-L., Nawroth, C., McGetrick, J., Langbein, J.: Dwarf goats show altruistic behaviour in a novel food giving paradigm. Talk presented at the joint Graduate Meeting of the Ethological Society and the Behavioural Biology Section of the DZG 2023 in Bielefeld, Germany

August 2023

Nawroth, C., Rault, J.-L., Deutsch, J., Pahl, A., Langbein, J.: Taking a species‘ ecology into account in farm animal cognition research. Invited symposium talk presented at the Behaviour, Bielefeld, Germany

June 2023

Pahl, A., Rault, J.-L., Nawroth, C., McGetrick, J., Langbein, J.: Dwarf goats show non-egoistic motivation in a novel altruistic helping paradigm. Short talk presented at the UFAW virtual meeting, United Kingdom

November 2022

Pahl, A., Rault, J.-L., Nawroth, C., McGetrick, J., Langbein, J.: Zwergziegen (Capra hircus) zeigen nicht-egoistisches Verhalten in einem neuartigen Fütterungs-Paradigma (Dwarf goats show non-egoistic motivation in a novel altruistic helping paradigm). Talk presented at the 54th International Congress of Applied Ethology, Freiburg, Germany

Pahl, A., Melzer, N., Langbein, J.: Einsatz eines Ultra-Breitband-basierten Echtzeit-Ortungssystems zur Bewertung der Stabilität von sozialen Beziehungen bei Milchkühen. Short Talk presented at the 54th International Congress of Applied Ethology, Freiburg, Germany

April 2021

Pahl A., König von Borstel U., Brucks D.: Llamas use social information from conspecifics and humans to solve a spatial detour task. Anim Cogn (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-023-01808-8. Talk presented at the ASAB virtual Easter Meeting 2021

November 2023

"The Social Life of Farm Animals", Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy (online)

November 2022

"Social Behaviour and Cognition in Cattle", Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy (online)

February 2020 – March 2020

Supervision of a Practical Training for Bachelor Students, 

Animal physiology: Practical training for bachelor students about structure and function of blood

April 2023

Species-specific expertise for handling of livestock in animal experiments: F1-P Funktionsspezifisches Modul Rind, LaNiV-Veranstaltungsbüro c/o berliner fortbildungen

March 2023

Fundamentals of Animal Emotion, PhD course at Wageningen University

December 2022

FBN PhD Statistics Course, FBN Dummerstorf, Germany

November 2023

Winner of the Talk Award at the joint Graduate Meeting of the Ethological Society and the Behavioural Biology Section of the DZG 2023 in Bielefeld, Germany

June 2023

Winner of Science Communication Contest "Rostock's Eleven 2023"

August 2022

Winner of the best presentation in the section "Science to Public" on the Day of the Doctoral Student at the FBN Dummerstorf, Germany

August 2022

Winner of the best presentation in the section "Beginner" on the Day of the Doctoral Student at the FBN Dummerstorf, Germany

December 2023

Interview for the Cover Story of the Science Magazine: Grimm, David (2023, 7. December). What are farm animals thinking?. Science 382 (6675), . DOI: 10.1126/science.adn3270 

December 2023

Interview for the Science Podcast: Crespi, Sarah; Grimm, David; Irving, Katherine (2023, 7. December). Farm animals show their smarts, and how honeyguide birds lead humans to hives. doi:10.1126/science.zr3zfn1

December 2023

Contribution in the format "Mintmagie" of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for Instagram and Youtube

October 2023

Guest on the radio programme "Wellenlänge Wissenschaft" on the Rostock radio station LOHRO

August 2023

Science Communication Talk at "Science at Sail" at the Hanse Sail Fair in Rostock, Germany 

August 2023

Interview for the Ostseezeitung: Meyer, Michael (2023, 11. August). Die mit den Kühen spricht. Ostseezeitung. https://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/wissen/regional/haben-kuehe-freundschaften-biologin-untersucht-in-dummerstorf-verhalten-der-vierbeiner-E2E2PYWGA5GYJMNL7DIG7NWNZ4.html

September 2022

Interview for the TV Science Magazine PM Wissen: Siegler, Jo (2022, 28. September). Gibt es Freundschaften unter Kühen?. https://www.servustv.com/wissen/v/aa-28wxhdc6n1w11/