Sylvia Cremer
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil., Dipl.-Biol.Corresponding Member of the Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Austria since 2026
- Professorin für Evolutionsbiologie am ISTA (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
Orcid-ID:
0000-0002-2193-3868
Research Areas:
- Biology
- Evolutionary research
- Zoology
- evolutionäre Immunologie
- Verhaltensökologie sozialer Insekten
Profile:
Publications:
Selected Memberships:
- International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI)
- Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (DZG)
- International Society for Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health (ISEMPH)
- European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)
Selected Prizes:
- Elisabeth Lutz Preis der ÖAW
- Walther Arndt Preis der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft DZG
- Anerkennungspreis des Landes Niederösterreich
- ERC Starting & Consolidator Grant
Selected Publications:
- Cremer S, Armitage SAO & Schmid-Hempel P (2007) Social Immunity. Current Biology, Special Issue: Biology of Societies, 17: R693-R702.
- Dawson EH, Hoenigsberger M, Kampleitner N, Grasse AV, Lindorfer L, Robb J, Beikzadeh F, Strahodinsky F, Leitner H, Rajendran H, Schmitt T & Cremer S (2025) Altruistic disease signalling in ant colonies. Nature Communications 16: 10511.
- Casillas-Perez B, Bodova K, Grasse AV, Tkacik G & Cremer S (2023) Dynamic pathogen detection and social feedback shape collective hygiene in ants. Nature Communications 14:3232.
- Stock M, Milutinovic B, Hoenigsberger M, Grasse AV, Wiesenhofer F, Kampleitner N, Narasimhan M, Schmitt T, Cremer S (2023) Pathogen evasion of social immunity. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7, 450–460.
- Cremer S & Sixt M (2009) Analogies in the evolution of individual and social immunity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B: Biological Sciences 364: 129-142.