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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alex Jordan

Citation names

  • Jordan, Alex

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
131D-AB60-26BA
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6131-9734
Education
Degree Classification
2011
Concluded
 Evolutionary Biology (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of New South Wales Faculty of Science, Australia
"Social environment and the evolution of male reproductive strategy. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2007
Concluded
 Science (Bachelor)
The University of Sydney - Mallett Street Campus, Australia
"Reproductive biology of South African honeybees. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2013 - 2015 Postdoc (Research) The University of Texas - Department of Integrative Biology, United States
2011 - 2012 Postdoc (Research) Lake Tanganyika Research Station, Mpulungu, and Osaka City University, Japan
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019 - Current Transmission of influence in social groups
N/A
Principal investigator
Ongoing
2018 - Current The interaction between social and structural networks in coral reef fish communities
N/A
Principal investigator
2016 - Current How are cooperation and collective behaviour maintained as conflict increases? A study of the price of anarchy and conflict across social systems
N/A
Principal investigator
Heineman Research Grant, Minerva Foundation, Germany
Concluded
2014 - Current Ecolabs Texas Research Grant for work on learning in invasive fish species
N/A
Research Fellow
2016 - 2020 Evolution of social and collective behavior in fishes
N/A
Principal investigator
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Jordan, Alex. "Structural manipulations of a shelter resource reveal underlying preference functions in a shell-dwelling cichlid fish". Biorxiv (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.16.994129.
    10.1101/2020.03.16.994129
  2. Jordan, Alex. "Bi-parental mucus provisioning in the scale-eating cichlid Perissodus microlepis (Cichlidae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz124.
    10.1093/biolinnean/blz124
  3. Jordan, Alex. "If a fish can pass the mark test, what are the implications for consciousness and self-awareness testing in animals?". PLOS Biology (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000021.
    10.1371/journal.pbio.3000021
  4. Jordan, Alex. "Does the field of animal personality provide any new insights for behavioral ecology?". Behavioral Ecology (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx022.
    10.1093/beheco/arx022
  5. Jordan, Alex. "The Emperor has no clothes: a response to comments on Beekman and Jordan". Behavioral Ecology (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx066.
    10.1093/beheco/arx066
  6. Jordan, Alex. "Intruder colour and light environment jointly determine how nesting male stickleback respond to simulated territorial intrusions". Biology Letters (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0467.
    10.1098/rsbl.2016.0467
  7. Lyndon Alexander Jordan; Sean M. Maguire; Hans A. Hofmann; Masanori Kohda. "The social and ecological costs of an ‘over-extended' phenotype". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283 1822 (2016): 20152359-20152359. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2359.
    10.1098/rspb.2015.2359
  8. Jordan, Alex. "Facial Recognition in a Group-Living Cichlid Fish". PLOS ONE (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142552.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0142552
  9. Jordan, Alex. "The multivariate evolution of female body shape in an artificial digital ecosystem". Evolution and Human Behavior (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.02.001.
    10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.02.001
  10. Jordan, Alex. "The use of multiple sources of social information in contest behavior: testing the social cognitive abilities of a cichlid fish". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2015.00085.
    10.3389/fevo.2015.00085
  11. Jordan, Alex. "Order effects in transitive inference: does the presentation order of social information affect transitive inference in social animals?". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2015.00059.
    10.3389/fevo.2015.00059
  12. Jordan, Alex. "The sensory ecology of adaptive landscapes". Biology Letters (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.1054.
    10.1098/rsbl.2014.1054
  13. Jordan, Alex. "Female control of paternity by spawning site choice in a cooperatively polyandrous cichlid". Behaviour (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568539x-00003242.
    10.1163/1568539x-00003242
  14. Jordan, Alex. "Duration of memory of dominance relationships in a group living cichlid". Naturwissenschaften (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-014-1213-z.
    10.1007/s00114-014-1213-z
  15. Jordan, Alex. "Reproductive Foragers: Male Spiders Choose Mates by Selecting among Competitive Environments". The American Naturalist (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/675755.
    10.1086/675755
  16. Jordan, Alex. "A model comparison reveals dynamic social information drives the movements of humbug damselfish ( Dascyllus aruanus )". Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0794.
    10.1098/rsif.2013.0794
  17. Jordan, Alex. "Social Factors Driving Settlement and Relocation Decisions in a Solitary and Aggregative Spider". The American Naturalist (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/671930.
    10.1086/671930
  18. Jordan, Alex. "Initiators, Leaders, and Recruitment Mechanisms in the Collective Movements of Damselfish". The American Naturalist (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/670242.
    10.1086/670242
  19. Jordan, Alex. "Rising costs of care make spiny chromis discerning parents". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-012-1465-6.
    10.1007/s00265-012-1465-6
  20. Jordan, Alex. "Mating systems in cooperative breeders: the roles of resource dispersion and conflict mitigation". Behavioral Ecology (2012): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arr218.
    10.1093/beheco/arr218
  21. Jordan, Alex. "RECENT SOCIAL HISTORY ALTERS MALE COURTSHIP PREFERENCES". Evolution (2012): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01421.x.
    10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01421.x
  22. Jordan, Alex. "The lifetime costs of increased male reproductive effort: courtship, copulation and the Coolidge effect". Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2010): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02104.x.
    10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02104.x
  23. Jordan, Alex. "Group structure in a restricted entry system is mediated by both resident and joiner preferences". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2010): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-010-0924-1.
    10.1007/s00265-010-0924-1
  24. Jordan, Alex. "The effects of familiarity and social hierarchy on group membership decisions in a social fish". Biology Letters (2010): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0732.
    10.1098/rsbl.2009.0732
  25. Jordan, Alex. "A quantitative study of worker reproduction in queenright colonies of the Cape honey bee,Apis mellifera capensis". Molecular Ecology (2009): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2009.04224.x.
    10.1111/j.1365-294x.2009.04224.x
  26. Jordan, Alex. "Thelytokous Parthenogenesis in Unmated Queen Honeybees (Apis mellifera capensis): Central Fusion and High Recombination Rates". Genetics (2008): http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.108.090415.
    10.1534/genetics.108.090415
  27. Jordan, Alex. "Inheritance of Traits Associated with Reproductive Potential in Apis mellifera capensis and Apis mellifera scutellata Workers". Journal of Heredity (2008): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esn023.
    10.1093/jhered/esn023
  28. Jordan, Alex. "Cheating honeybee workers produce royal offspring". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2008): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1422.
    10.1098/rspb.2007.1422
  29. Jordan, Alex. "A scientific note on the drone flight time ofApis mellifera capensisandA. m. scutellata". Apidologie (2007): http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/apido:2007028.
    10.1051/apido:2007028
  30. Jordan, Alex. "Utilisation of carbon substrates by orchid and ericoid mycorrhizal fungi from Australian dry sclerophyll forests". Mycorrhiza (2006): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00572-005-0029-2.
    10.1007/s00572-005-0029-2

Other

Other output
  1. High-resolution animal tracking with integration of environmental information in aquatic systems. 2020. Fritz A Francisco; Paul Nührenberg; Alex Jordan. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.25.963926.
    10.1101/2020.02.25.963926
  2. Behavioral traits that define social dominance are the same that reduce social influence in a consensus task. 2019. Mariana Rodriguez-Santiago; Paul Nührenberg; James Derry; Oliver Deussen; Linda K Garrison; Sylvia F Garza; Fritz Francisco; Hans A Hofmann; Alex Jordan. https://doi.org/10.1101/845628.
    10.1101/845628
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2019 Symposium - Proximate mechanisms of complex sociality Behaviour 2019 Chicago
(Chicago, United States)
2018 Whither the Naturalist in the age of computational ethology? The American Society of Naturalists Conference
Asilomar Conference Center (Pacific Grove , United States)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020 - Current Social entrainment of circadian rhythms in cichlids
Supervisor of Pranav Minasandra
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2020 - Current Female hierarchy and social learning
Supervisor of Shehide Gashi
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2020 - Current Synchronization during prey capture in a social spider
Supervisor of Cesar Cerrato
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2019 - Current N/A
Supervisor of Kaz Uyehara
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2019 - Current The interplay between physical structure and social behaviour of animals
Supervisor of Anja Mendez
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2019 - Current The evolution of social behaviour in Tanganyikan cichlids
Supervisor of Paul Nührenberg
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2019 - Current Quantitative computational analysis of behaviour in Tanganyika cichlids
Supervisor of Ma Bin
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2019 - Current Contest behaviour in cichlid fishes is mediated by social evolution
Supervisor of Huy Nguyen
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2019 - Current A novel form of social bargaining. Tactile stimulation in a foraging context
Supervisor of Myriam Knöpfle
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2019 - Current Hierarchy affects response to predation threats in a group-living fish
Supervisor of Rolf Walter
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2019 - Current Turn-taking behaviour as a signature of social evolution
Supervisor of Timothy Koch
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2019 - Current Comparing machine-learning approaches to natural image segmentation in Lake Tanganyika
Co-supervisor of David Kolb
2019 - Current Mirror self-recognition in the wild
Supervisor of Karina Weiler
2019 - Current Mapping brain structure in virtual reality
Co-supervisor of Dimitar Garkov
2019 - Current Territorial behaviour in a Mediterranean Wrasse
Supervisor of Zoe Goverts
2018 - Current N/A
Supervisor of Dr Aneesh Bose
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2018 - Current Territory defence and peace-keeping are sex- and space-dependent in group-living fish
Supervisor of Jakob Gübel
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2018 - Current Male trajectory as a reproductive strategy the sexually cannibalistic spider Nephila clavipes
Supervisor of Sylvia Garza
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2018 - Current Parental care state affects social network structure in group-living fish
Supervisor of Ana Zaalishvili
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2017 - Current Untangling the evolution of social behavior: sociality in a primarily solitary lineage
Co-supervisor of Shoyo Sato
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2016 - Current The role of cognitive and behavioural flexibility for social evolution – re-examining the Social Brain Hypothesis
Supervisor of Etienne Lein
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2016 - Current Machine-learning of natural ornamentation
Supervisor of Ian Etheredge
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2013 - Current Neuromolecular Mechanisms of Learning in a Social Dominance Hierarchy
Co-supervisor of Mariana Rodriguez
2018 - 2019 Predatory influence on the social behaviour of the shell- dwelling cichlid Neolamprologus multifasciatus
Supervisor of Timothy Singer
2018 - 2019 N/A
Supervisor of Ann-Katrin Pöhl
2018 - 2019 Evaluating waterborne hormone extraction as a method for understanding behavioural responses in the Tanganyikan cichlid radiation
Supervisor of Rosanna Stolberg
2017 - 2019 N/A
Supervisor of Dr Sofia Rodriguez
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2016 - 2019 N/A
Co-supervisor of Dr Simon Gingins
2017 - 2018 Understanding how predation shapes the internal dynamics of fish schools in the wild
Supervisor of Fritz Francisco
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2017 - 2018 Motion patterns, predictability and predation responses within a wild, freely moving fish school
Supervisor of Paul Nührenberg
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
2017 - 2018 Changes in social hierarchy affect collective network structure of cichlid fish groups
Supervisor of Jacqueline Dettinger
2017 - 2018 Male reproductive plasticity in the face of changing fecundity and genetic benefits
Supervisor of Ivo Neufert
2017 - 2018 Extended Phenotype Construction of Shell Dwelling Lamprologine Cichlids
Supervisor of Lukas Koch
2017 - 2018 Is display laterality in male guppies context- dependent?
Supervisor of Nadja Vögtle
2016 - 2018 N/A
Co-supervisor of Matthew Lutz
2016 - 2018 Dominance structures and feeding behaviour in Tilapia aquaculture
Co-supervisor of Jian Zhao
2016 - 2017 FIMTrack. A specified application for tracking fish
Co-supervisor of Manuel Wildner
2016 - 2017 Can the structure of a spider web be inferred by behavioural tracking?
Supervisor of Jakob Gübel
2016 - 2017 Effects of individual state on social group structure of spiders
Supervisor of Kai Schleifer
2016 - 2017 Social spider behaviour. Exploring the possibilities of basic agent based modeling
Supervisor of Robert Felbier

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2016 - Current Alpine Cichlid Symposium. A yearly conference held in Konstanz for cichlid researchers. In 2016 we had 10 attendees, and in 2018 we had more than 80 attendees from across Europe and world. (2016)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
2019 - 2019 ASAB Summer conference (2019 - 2019)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2019 - 2019 New Frontiers in the Study of Animal Behaviour (2019 - 2019)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2017 - Current Course coordinator Quantitative Field Biology (Master) The University of Konstanz, Germany
2016 - Current Course coordinator Collective Animal Behaviour (Master) The University of Konstanz, Germany
2016 - Current Lecturer Animal Behaviour (Bachelor) The University of Konstanz, Germany
2013 - 2015 Lecturer Research Methods (Bachelor) The University of Texas - Department of Integrative Biology, United States

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2018 - Current Editorial board - Movement Ecology
2017 - Current Editorial board - The American Naturalist
2016 - Current Reviewer: Science, Proceedings B, Evolution, Biology Letters, The American Naturalist, J Evolutionary Biology, Animal Behaviour, Behavioural Ecology, Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, Oikos, Behaviour, J Experimental Zoology, Ethology, Journal of Neuroscience
Distinctions

Award

2018 Transdepartmental Teaching Award for course Quantitative Marine Biology to include instructors from biology and computer science in field course of my own design and instruction
2017 ELETTRA SYRMEP Beamline Grant-in-aid. Award of beamtime in recognition of the excellence of your proposal and is an in-kind contribution funded by public (national and EU) sources within the Open Access rules applied in Europe
2016 Don Abbott Postdoctoral Research Award for an outstanding contributed presentation by a current postdoc - Runner-up American Society of Naturalists conference, Asilomar.
2016 Fulbright People's Choice Award – Australia and Oceania 3MT Competition
2014 Presidential Award for best paper appearing in The American Naturalist
2010 Fulbright People's Choice Award – Australia and Oceania 3MT
2009 Outstanding Evolution & Ecology Researcher of the Year (Postgraduate)
2009 Best Presentation, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre Research