Rate My Professor Lars Chittka

Professor Lars Chittka is Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology at Queen Mary University of London in the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences. He earned his Diploma in Biology with first-class honours from the Free University of Berlin and completed his PhD summa cum laude in Biology there in 1993 under the supervision of Randolf Menzel. Chittka founded the Research Centre for Psychology at Queen Mary University of London in 2008 and served as its scientific director until 2012. His research focuses on the intersection of sensory physiology, learning psychology, and evolutionary ecology, using pollinator-plant interactions as a primary model system with particular emphasis on bees. He has conducted extensive studies on bee behaviour, cognition, colour vision, learning, navigation, and their ecological interactions with flowers.