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Max Wolf

Principal Investigator

Behavioral Biology

IGB Berlin

 

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Phone: +49 30 64181 718

 

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Max Wolf

Max Wolf

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Max Wolf has an interdisciplinary background including economics, biology and cognitive sciences. His research brings together theoretical and computational approaches to behavior and decision making with experimental work in fish and humans.


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