Silke Voigt-Heucke

Area of responsibility

• Head of Citizen Science division
• Establishment of Citizen Science Competence Center
• Research with and on Citizen Science

Current Projects

• Bürger schaffen Wissen - die Online-Plattform für Citizen Science
• Chancen und Grenzen der Partizipation in der Wissenschaft
• Auf die Plätze! Citizen Science in deiner Stadt
• ECSA Conference 2022 - Citizen Science for Planetary Health
• European Citizen Science

Completed Projects

• EU-Citizen.Science
• Knowledge for Change - Citizen Science SDG Conference
• Forschungsfall Nachtigall

Publications (Selection)

7. Moczek, Nicola, Silke Voigt-Heucke, Kim Mortega, Claudia Fabó Cartas, and Jörn Knobloch. "The contribution of European Citizen Science projects to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)." Sustainability (in press)

6. Sturm, Ulrike, Silke Voigt-Heucke, Kim G. Mortega, and Alexandra Moormann. "Die Artenkenntnis von Berliner Schüler_innen am Beispiel einheimischer Vögel." Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Naturwissenschaften 26,1 (2020): 143-155.

5. Silke L. Voigt-Heucke, Stefanie Zimmer & Silke Kipper (2016). Does interspecific eavesdropping promote aerial aggregations in European pipistrelle bats during autumn? Ethology 122 (9), 745-757

4. Mathilde Bessert-Nettelbeck, Silke Kipper, Conny Bartsch & Silke L. Voigt-Heucke (2013). Similar, yet different: male reed buntings (Emberiza schoeniculus) show high individual differences in song composition, rates of syllable sharing and use. Journal of Ornithology; doi:10.1007/s10336-014-1052

3. Dina K.N. Dechmann, Martin Wikelski, H.J. van Nordwijk, Christian C. Voigt & Silke L. Voigt-Heucke (2013). Metabolic costs of bat echolocation in a non-foraging context support a role in communication Frontiers in Integrative Physiology 4: article 66.

2. Silke L. Voigt-Heucke, Michael Taborsky & Dina K.N. Dechmann (2010). A dual function of echolocation: bats use echolocation calls to identify familiar and unfamiliar individuals. Animal Behaviour doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.03.025.

1. Dina K.N. Dechmann, Silke L. Heucke, Luigi Guggioli, Kamran Safi, Christian C. Voigt & Martin Wikelski (2009). Experimental evidence for group hunting via eavesdropping in echolocating bats. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 276: 2721-2728.