Professor Lars Chittka

Undergraduate Teaching

• Behavioural Ecology (BIO311)

Research

Research Interests:

See Lars Chittka’s research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.

Supervision

Current PhD opportunities

• Cognition in insects
• The ecology of flower colour choice in bees
• Social learnining in bees - how do pollinators learn from each other?
• Spatial orientation of bees in the field and the laboratory
• Modelling the insect brain

PhD supervision

• Joanna Brebner
• Alice Bridges
• H. Samadi Galpayage Dona
• Vincent Gallo
• Matilda Gibbons
• Yonghe Zhou

Postdoctoral supervision

• Clint Perry
• James Makinson
• Joseph Woodgate
• Stephan Wolf

Public Engagement

Media

• Bumblebees use nicotine to fight off parasites
• Bumblebees differentiate flower types when arranged horizontally but not vertically
• Bees form false memories just like humans
• Tropical wasps attack intruders with unfamiliar faces
• Hat-trick of research awards for QMUL bee expert