EDUCATION

2007
Habilitation  in Zoology at the University of Basel, Department of
Environmental Sciences

1999
Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Bern, Department of Evolutionary Ecology

1996
Lizentiat (MSc.) Zoology at the University of Bern

Further Education

2016 – 2018
Teaching Diploma for Grammar Schools and Vocational Schools

CAREER

2020 – 2021
Curator Special Exhibitions, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel

2018 – 2019
Curator Special Exhibitions, Natural History Museum of Fribourg

2008 – 2015
Assistant Professor SNF, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel

2005 – 2008
Junior Group Leader, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel

2002 – 2005
Postdoc (SNF fellowship), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

2001 – 2002
Consultant Data Mining, dmplus Direktmarketing AG

1999 – 2001
Assistant,  Department of Evolutionary Ecology, University of Bern

PROJECTS AND MUSEUM ACTIVITIES

2021
200 JAHRE NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL, Anniversary Exhibition, Co-Curator

2020
EARTH AT ITS LIMITS, Special Exhibition; Naturhistorisches Museum Basel – Kulturama Zürich – Musée d’Histoire Naturelle Fribourg, Curator and Co-Project Leader; Nomination Prix Expo 2021

2019
MILCH – Mütterliches Elixier, Special Exhibition; Musée d’Histoire Naturelle Fribourg – Zoologisches Museum Zürich, Curator; Winner Exhibition Prix Expo 2019

2007
ADAM, EVA UND DARWIN, Museum.BL, Liestal, Contributions to the Special Exhibition

PUBLICATIONS

Wu, M., Sun, L., Walser J.-C. & Kölliker, M. 2020. The genetic mechanism of selfishness and altruism in parent-offspring coadaptation. Science Advances 6/1, eaaw0070.

Bailey, N.W. & Kölliker, M. 2019. Social runaway: Fisherian elaboration (or reduction) of socially selected traits via indirect genetic effects. Evolution 73/8, 1549-1564.

Benoit, J.B., Kölliker, M. & Attardo, G.M. 2019. Putting invertebrate lactation in context. Science 363, 593.

Kasper, C., Kölliker, M., Postma, E. & Taborsky, B. 2017. Consistent cooperation in a cichlid fish is caused by maternal and developmental effects rather than heritable genetic variation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 284, 20170369.

Kölliker, M., Boos, S., Wong, J.W.Y. et al. 2015. Parent-offspring conflict and the genetic trade-offs shaping parental investment. Nature Communications 6, 6850.

Royle, N., Smiseth, P.T. & Kölliker, M. 2012. The evolution of parental care. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kölliker, M. 2007. Benefits and costs of earwig (Forficula auricularia) family life. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 61/9, 1489-1497.

All publications on Google Scholar and Researchgate