Katrin Schaefer, Ao. Univ.-Prof.Dr.rer.nat. (M.Sc., Ph.D.)

Katrin Schaefer is Associate Professor and Deputy Head at the Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna.

Her interests center around the evolutionary forces and constraints that shaped and continue to shape our minds, our behaviors, and our bodies. Current research focusses on biological causes and psychological effects of modern human craniofacial shape variation (with a special focus on sexual dimorphism and ontogenetic patterns) using Geometric Morphometric methods. She is also involved in paleoanthropological field research in Ethiopia, and non-human European primate research.

Academic positions

since 2004	Associate professor, Dept of Anthropology, Univ Vienna
2000-2004	Assistant professor, Department of Anthropology
1995-2000	Contract assistant, Department of Anthropology
1994	Research assistant in the MA7 (Kulturamt Wien) project entitled “Die Lebendigkeit von Plätzen im öffentlichen Raum“ at the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethology, Vienna, Austria.

Education

2004	Habilitation (venia docendi for Anthropology) “Quantifying evolutionary anthropology — from behavior studies to geometric morphometrics”, Univ of Vienna
1997	Doctoral thesis in anthropology “The social-integrative potential of urban squares” (in German) Univ of Vienna, supervised by Karl Grammer, Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethology, Vienna
1994	Master of Science in zoology entitled “Communication and Satisfaction in Urban Housing Areas” (in German) supervised by Karl Grammer, LBI for Urban Ethology, Vienna
1988-1991	Study of Common Biology at the University of Vienna, Austria
1988	Practical training at Centre of Human Genetics, Univ of Bremen
1987	Development aid in São Paulo, Brazil
1986	Abitur in Bremen, Germany

Selected grants & activities

2009	Morphometrics of human facial variation in Ethiopia (PI)
2009	EFS Unternehmsberatung (industry grant): Ethiopian Face Perception (PI)
2009-2012	BM.W_F (for MUSE) grant Euphorische Anfänge – dysphorische Gegenwart: Anthropologische Sammlung im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Ethik (PI M.Teschler-Nicola)
2008	EFS Unternehmensberatung research grant: Psychomorphometrics of car fronts in Ethiopia (PI)
since 2007	DFG Emmy-Noether Programm: Evolutionary Psychology of Human Physical Appearance & Body Movement to B. Fink. (intl. collaborator)
2006-2009	EU FP6 Marie Curie Actions grant EVAN, MRTN-CT-2005-019564 to G. Weber et al. (participant & Gender Board)
2004-2006	Co-Leader of the ‘Center of Morphometrics', Dept. of Anthropology
since 2000	Yearly participation in the PaleoAnthropological Research-Team mission, surveying Pliocene deposits in the Somali Region, Ethiopia
2004-2007	bm:bwk grant GZ200.093/1-VI/2004 “New Perspectives in Anthropology” Austrian Council for Science & Technology to H. Seidler et al.
2003, 2004	Leader of the "Red Bed Exploration Survey" mission in the Northwest Afar Depression, Afar Region, Ethiopia
2003	Comparative studies of the Galili specimens at the National Museum Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2002	Investigations of the Pleistocene hominid teeth from Okladnikov and Denisova caves, Siberia (PI)
1999	Co-leader of the University-Anniversary Foundation of the City of Vienna project (MA8 H-1/98): Future of Urban Living
1999	Leader of the Austrian National Bank project (OeNB 7270/1) Quality and Quantity of Human Interactions on Public Squares
1998	Süddeutsche Zeitung, Pace project (Co-PI)
1998	Leader of the MA18 project (Stadtentwicklung und Stadtplanung Gruppe Wissenschaft. WI/1012/97): Satisfaction and Cooperation in Public Spaces
1997-1999	Co-leader of the project: Individual and Cultural Diversity, supported by the Johann Jacobs Foundation Zurich, Switzerland
1996	Investigations of Peruvian ice-mummies at the Universidad Católica Santa María de Arequipa and mummies at the Centro Mallquí in Ilo, Peru. PI: H Seidler

Organising activities

2009	EVAN Gender Board Workshop: Life After EVAN. Jan. 13–14, Athens, Greece
2008	19th Altenberg Workshop of Theoretical Biology “Measuring Biology — Quantitative Methods: Past and Future”, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg
2008	Summer school and Symposium “Multivariate Techniques for Growth and Evolution of Form”, Vienna
2006	Vienna MorphoFest 2006: Summer School, Symposium and Workshop on Geometric Morphometrics, Vienna
2000	3rd Zumtobel Lectures: Missing Geometry in Palaeoanthropology, Vienna
1999	3rd Philipp V. Tobias Lectures: Evolution of the Human Brain, Vienna
1998	2nd Zumtobel Lectures: Vienna Morphometric Workshop, Vienna
1997	Philipp V. Tobias Lectures, Vienna
1996	13th Conference of the International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE), Vienna

Selected cooperations

Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Dept. for Sociobiology/Anthropology, Univ Goettingen, Germany
Vienna University Clinic of Dentistry, Department of Orthodontics, Vienna
Dept. of Human Evolution, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Breuckmann-Company, Meersburg, Germany
Dept. of Anthropology, University of Durham, UK
Dept. of Biological Psychology, University of Vienna
Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Med. Uni. Vienna, Vienna
Archäologische Biologie & Anthropologie, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna
Dept of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
Paläoanthropologie, Sektion Tertiäre Säugetiere, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Department of Radiology II, University Clinic Innsbruck, Austria
Dept. of Behavioral Biology, University of Vienna

Theses supervision

since 2004	15 Master theses completed, five running; one PhD thesis completed, four running
1995-2004	Ten Master theses co-supervised

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Article Reference
Morphometric estimation of human “masculinity”: Conceptual and statistical considerations.	2012-02-09
Second-to-fourth digit ratio and facial shape in boys—the lower the ratio the more robust the face	2012-02-09
“Cars have their own faces”: Cross-cultural ratings of car shapes in biological (stereotypical) terms	2012-02-09
Geometric morphometrics of male facial shape in relation to physical strength and perceived attractiveness, dominance and masculinity	2012-02-09
Psychomorphospace—Mapping perception onto morphology with geometric morphometrics (applied to aging)	2011-01-08
Bibliography Folder
Peer-reviewed Abstracts	2008-09-18
Presentations	2008-09-20
Conference Reference
Psychomorphometry: An integrative way of assessing human facial form and function	2009-01-19
Psychomorphometry: Towards a novel assessment of human facial form and function	2009-01-19
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Morphological aspects of the cranial vault in Homo: A CT-based analysis	2008-09-20
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Winterhalder & Smith 2000 Analysing Adaptive strategies	2011-10-10
Zeitplan Paläoethologie SoSe 2011	2011-05-23
Gognon 2009 Fertility and longevity in humans	2010-11-24
Crawford 2008 Adaptations environments and behavior then and now.pdf	2010-11-06
Fuentes 2008 Modern perspectives for understanding human evolution	2010-11-06
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Seminar Paläoethologie	2011-03-09
Abschlussberichte 2010	2010-05-16
Morphologie und Wahrnehmung: Eine integrative Methode zur Erklärung der Gesichtervariation	2009-01-23
Evolutionäre Ansätze zur Erklärung von Kunst und Kultur	2009-01-19
Herausforderungen von Verwandtschaft	2009-01-17
Inbook Reference
Xenophobie—aus verhaltensbiologischer Sicht	2008-05-23
Exo- and endocranial Morphometrics in mid-Pleistocene and Modern Humans	2008-05-23
Wohlbefinden in Wohnanlagen—Eine humanethologische Feldstudie	2008-05-23
Individuelle und kulturelle Vielfalt im Verhalten	2008-05-23
Verhaltenswissenschaftliche Untersuchung zum sozialintegrativen Potential von Stadtplätzen	2008-05-23
Inproceedings Reference
From biology to perception by way of the face: the role of geometric morphometrics in interdisciplinary ethological studies	2011-01-08
Psychomorphometry: towards a novel assessment of human facial form and function	2011-01-08
High volitional versus low volitional load tasks and the Bereitschaftspotential	2011-01-08
Second to fourth digit ratio and facial shape in children	2011-01-08
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Mastersthesis Reference
Kommunikation und Zufriedenheit in Wohnanlagen	2008-05-23
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Psychomorphospace—from biology to perception and back: Towards an integrated quantification of facial form variation.	2011-01-08
Does geometric morphometrics serve the needs of plasticity research?	2010-05-17
Secular trends of the European male facial skull from the migration period to the present	2008-12-04
From biology to perception by way of the face: the role of geometric morphometrics in interdisciplinary ethological studies	2008-10-02
A celebration of Horst Seidler on his sixtieth birthday	2008-09-27
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PDFs	2008-05-23
PDFs	2008-09-21
PDFs	2008-09-21
Phdthesis Reference
Das sozialintegrative Potential von Stadtplätzen—eine humanethologische Feldstudie	2008-05-23

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