Lars Chittka#
Photo: Jesper Lund
| Membership Number: | 7483 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/Lars.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8153-1732 |
| Bluesky: | @larschittka.bsky.social |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-chittka-8400b5164/ |
| Publication Link: | https://chittkalab.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/Pub.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 - present Professor in Sensory & Behavioural Ecology, Queen Mary University of London
- 2008 - 2012 Scientific Director, Research Centre for Psychology, QMUL
- 2003 - 2005 Reader in Behavioural Ecology, Queen Mary University of London
- 2002 - 2003 Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London
- 2000 - 2002 Senior Lecturer, Würzburg University
- 1997 - 2000 Lecturer, Würzburg University
- 1994 - 1997 Postdoctoral fellow, SUNY Stony Brook
- 1994 Postdoctoral fellow, FU Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- Animal cognition
- Pollination ecology
- Entomology
- Computational neuroscience
- Sensory systems
- Plant-animal interactions
- Evolution of intelligence
- Sentience in animals
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Exemplar Award, Animal Behaviour Society (ABS)
- 2025 B.F. Skinner Lectureship, Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) Annual Convention, Washington, USA
- 2025 Presenter of the Annual Keynote Lectureship, AChemS (Association for Chemoreception Sciences), Bonita Springs, Florida, USA
- 2024 Founders’ Memorial Award, Entomological Society of America, USA
- 2024 Perry Gilbert Lecture and Distinguished Visitor in Organismal Biology Award, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
- 2024 Gatsby Lecture, COSYNE Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2024 Taylor Memorial Lecture, Yale University (Psychology Department), New Haven, USA
- 2024 Alexander Lecture, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA
- 2024 Leibniz Lecture, Leibniz Institute of Neurobiology (LIN), Magdeburg, Germany
- 2023 Hilldale Award Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
- 2023 Von Frisch Lecture at the 50th Nobel Prize Anniversary in Ethology Colloquium (Vienna, Austria)
- 2023 Pineapple Science Award, Zhejiang Science and Technology Museum, Hangzhou, China
- 2022 Election as a Fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
- 2021 Election as a member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences
- 2021 Election to Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society
- 2020 Tinbergen Lecture, ASAB Winter Meeting, London, UK
- 2020 Baerends Lecture, Netherlands Society for Behavioural Biology, Netherlands
- 2019 Whitehead Lecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
- 2019 NEUReka! Seminar, King’s College, London, UK
- 2017-18 Fellowship of Institute of Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) Berlin
- 2017 Heller Lecture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- 2016 Tupper Lecture, Smithsonian Tropical Institute, Panama City, Panama
- 2015 John Emlen Lectureship, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
- 2015 Celebrity Lecture, CIE and the International Year of Light, Manchester, UK
- 2015 Faculty Research Performance Award, Queen Mary University of London
- 2014-2019 European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant: SpaceRadarPollinator (339347) Space use by bees– radar tracking of spatial movement patterns of key pollinators)
- 2014 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2009 Charles Darwin Lecture (200th Anniversary), University of Glasgow
- 2008 Verrall Lecture and Award at the Royal Entomological Society (Imperial College, London)
- 2008 Distinguished Biologist Lecture, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
- 2008 Lesley Goodman Award, Royal Entomological Society
