Background
Milinski, Manfred was born on February 8, 1950 in Oldenburg, Germany. Son of Franz and Eva Milinski.
biologist science association director
Milinski, Manfred was born on February 8, 1950 in Oldenburg, Germany. Son of Franz and Eva Milinski.
He studied biology and mathematics in Bielefeld and Bochum, went to Oxford University on a Heisenberg Scholarship and in 1987 became Professor of Zoology and Behavioural Ecology at University of Bern.
Since 1999 he has been a Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute of Limnology which in 2007 became the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. He has been an Honorary professor at Kiel University since 2000. His main research fields are Company-operation, Sexual selection and Host-parasite co-evolution.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]
He is a member of the Leopoldina and the Faculty of 1000.
Married Petra Schwager, December 28, 1986. Children: Sebastian, Linus.