This site is about the coordination of complex behavior in ants.

How do thousands of ants manage to perform collective tasks?

Chemical comunication between individuals is the basis of complex social bahavior in insects.
This site gives an impression of the "collective intelligence" of army ants
and of the sigificant ecological impact of invasive ant species.

I provide an abstract of my Ph.D. and a link to the complete thesis (German).

Furthermore, I describe briefly the results of my current work on the invasive "crazy ant".

Information on my person is available in my CV or the German "Lebenslauf".