Prof.Dr. S. Daan FRSC - Animal Behaviour

 

Serge Daan holds the prestigeous Niko Tinbergen chair in Behavioural Biology and leads the research group Animal Behaviour with circa 25 scientists. He is an expert in evolutionary biology of behaviour, in particular in biological timing. Daan published well over 200 scientific articles, together cited 5877 times, and has trained circa 30 Ph.D. students. He is recipient of the Hasselblad award, the Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis and other awards. Daan is member of the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He served on many journal editorial boards, and further as director of the Center for Behaviour and Neurosciences, as Vice-dean for research of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, as a member of the NWO board for the Earth and Life Sciences, as president of the Dutch Society for Behavioural Biology. He currently chairs the NWO program Evolution and Behaviour. His group received VSNU research visitation scores: 5,5,5,5 (Chronobiology 1993) and 5,4,4,4 (Animal Behaviour 1998).

• R.H.Drent, S.Daan: The prudent parent: Energetic adjustments in avian breeding. Ardea 68: 225-252 (1980) (“citation classic”, among top 3 publications in the Biological Sciences from the Netherlands most often cited in the 1990’s)

• S.Daan, D.G.M.Beersma, A.A.Borbely: Timing of human sleep: re­covery process gated by a circadian pacemaker. Am.J.Physiol. 246: R161-R178 (1984)

• S.Daan, C.Dijkstra, J.M.Tinbergen: Family planning in the kestrel: The ultimate control of covariation in laying date and clutch size. Behaviour 114:83-116 (1990).

• S.Daan, C.Deerenberg, C.Dijkstra: Increased daily work precipitates natural death in the Kestrel. J. Animal Ecology 65:539-544 (1996)

• S.Daan, U.Albrecht, G.T.J.Van der Horst, H.Illnerova, T.Roenneberg, T.A.Wehr, W.J.Schwartz: Assembling a clock for all seasons: are there M and E oscillators in the genes ? J.biol.Rhythms 16:105-116 (2001)