Information Ecology Zu Group (ETH Zurich)

We aim to integrate information theory into ecological and evolutionary theories, to gain mechanistic understanding on species interactions in ecological communities.

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2024-11-01: Congrats to Zu on her appointment as Assistant Professor at the University of Neuchatel, starting February 2025! New PhD and postdoc positions are available! Don’t hesitate to reach out. link

2024-08-25: We are at ICE (International Congress of Entomology) in Kyoto! Come and join our talks if you are also there!

  • Yan’s talk, 26 Aug. Monday 10:00 Room H
  • Zu’s talk, 27 Aug. Tuesday 15:15 Room C-2
  • Roberto’s talk, 29 Aug. Thursday 18:00 Room C-1

2024-02-19: Open positions for master/semester projects! link

2024-01-10: Biology24 meeting at Zurich will happen soon! We are also organizing a workshop with mind-blowing keynote talks on self-organization in complex systems [link] (https://biology24.ch/)

2023-11-01: Fieldwork in Mexico has been successfully conducted! Well done Yan!

2023-08-01: Summer fieldwork in Calanda has finished! It was a beautiful season and very productive work!

2023-06-05: Bee symposium with talks by Dr. Yan Yang, Dr. Minqiang Wang and Dr. Michael Orr

2023-04-03: Open positions for master/semester projects! link

2023-03-01: Welcome Flurina Zahn to do her bachelor thesis in the group!

2022-11-15: Welcome Dr. Yan Yang to join the group for a postdoc supported by China Scholarship Council!

2022-06-18: Welcome Dominic Stalder to join the group for a master semester project!

2022-03-21: Open positions for master thesis projects, bachelor thesis projects and field assistants (pdf).

2022-03-09: It has been an exciting and inspiring experience to attend the 3-day workshop at Leipzig: Evolution of chemodiversity, organized by Prof. Meike Wittmann and Prof. Nicole van Dam. Thanks for the invitation!

2021-12-01: Welcome Roberto H. Rebollo to join the project and being the first PhD student in my group! Warm welcome!

2021-09-01: Dr. Pengjuan Zu started her Information Ecology group at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, hosted by Prof. Consuelo De Moraes at Biocommunication group.

2021-02-08: PRIMA project is co-funded under RESPONSE scheme from European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie.

2021-01-19: Open PhD position available: see ETH website (link) or pdf file.

2020-12-03: Horizons (The Swiss Research Magazine) interviewed me and highlighted my research. Check it out: Whispering trees, by Yvonne Vahlensieck.

2020-12-01: Dr. P starting my SNSF SPARK project “Predicting the formation of plant-herbivore interactions using information processing traits” at EAWAG.

2020-08-21: Dr. Pengjuan Zu is awarded with an SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) PRIMA grant Switzerland.

2020-08-20: Dr. Pengjuan Zu is awarded an SNSF SPARK grant hosted by Dr. Carlos Melian at Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland.

2020-06-19: Our recent publication on Science where we showed that information arms race explains plant-herbivore chemical communication in ecological communities.

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