Dr Cedric van den Berg
Bio
2022: Swiss National Research Foundation research fellow - Ecology of Vision Group, University of Bristol
2020-2022: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Visual Ecology Laboratory (School of Biological Sciences) and the Sensory Neurobiology Group (Queensland Brain Institute) at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
2016- 2020: PhD Student (Supervision: Dr Karen Cheney, Prof Justin Marshall, Prof John Endler, Dr Simon Blomberg), School of Biological Sciences & Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland (Australia)
2015: MSc in Marine Conservation & Biodiversity (EMBC+), University of the Algarve & University of Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) (Portugal/France)
2013: BSc in Biology (Major in Animal & Plant Science), University of Basel (Switzerland)
Cedric has completed a joint MSc in marine biodiversity and conservation (EMBC) from the Universities of Ghent (Belgium), Faro (Portugal) and Pierre & Marie Curie (France) following his undergraduate studies in Basel (Switzerland). He completed his PhD at the University of Queensland (Australia) in 2020, specialising in the study of defensive animal colouration through the eyes of ecologically relevant observers and the development of visual modelling methodology & software. Following graduation, he completed a short postdoc with the visual ecology lab at UQ, applying and refining visual modelling frameworks developed during his PhD while engaging in various international collaborations on citizen science, conservation, as well as visual ecology studies on various terrestrial and aquatic animal systems. He has freshly joined the ‘Ecology of Vision’ lab in 2022 for a 2-year research position funded by the Swiss National Research Foundation as a ‘Postdoc.mobility’ research fellow. His current project aims to integrate polarisation imaging into existing visual modelling frameworks to investigate small-field polarisation contrast perception in marine crustaceans and cephalopods.