SHORT CV
Positions and education
2016-2018 SNSF post-doc fellow, University of Exeter, UK
2016 PhD student, University of Bern, CH
2010 MSc in Evolutionary Biology. KLIVV, Vienna, AUT; University of Padova, IT
2008 BSc in Biology, University of Padova, IT
Jungwirth A., Balzarini V., Zöttl M., Salzmann A., Taborsky M., Frommen J.G. (2019) Long-term individual marking of small freshwater fish: the utility of Visual Implant Elastomer tags. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 73,49
Balzarini V., Taborsky M., Villa F. & Frommen J.G. (2016) Computer animations of color markings reveal the function of visual threat signals in Neolamprologus pulcher. Curr. Zool. 63: 45-54
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Balzarini, V., Taborsky, M., Wanner, S., Koch, F., & Frommen J.G. (2014) Mirror, mirror on the wall: the predictive value of mirror tests for measuring aggression in fish. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 68: 871-878
Primary publications
Conference contributions, invited talks
Talks
2017 Behaviour, Estoril, Portugal. Effect of symbiont efficiency on host condition and behaviour.
2015 ESEB Lausanne, Switzerland. The social niche experienced early in life influences the behavioural phenotype.
​2013 20th KNDV Zoology Conference, Groningen, Netherlands. How does individual behavioural type impact group efficiency in a cooperative breeder?
2013 Behaviour, Newcastle, UK. Integrating helpfulness and personality: towards a comprehensive behavioural type.
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Posters
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2018 ECBB Liverpool, UK. Gene-by-gene interaction in a clonal invertebrate.
2017 ESEB Groningen, Netherlands. Gene-by-gene interaction in a clonal invertebrate: the clone wars.
2016 ISBE 16th Congress of the International Society of Behavioural Ecology, Exeter, UK. Repeatability of behaviours determining social structure in a cooperative breeder.
2014 ISBE 15th Congress of the International Society of Behavioural Ecology, New York, USA. The relation between social role and behavioral phenotype: a test of the social niche hypothesis.
2014 Biology 14, Geneva, Switzerland. Fish opercular patterns as a signal of aggression.
2012 ISBE 14th Congress of the International Society for Behavioural Ecology, Lund, Sweden. Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the most aggressive after all?
2011 DZG 104th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft, Saarbrücken, Germany. The influence of perceived predation risk on the development of behavioural syndromes in three-spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus.
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Invited talks
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2017 Seminar, University of Exeter, UK. My buddying career in behavioural ecology.
2016 Seminar, University of Bern, Switzerland. Cause and effect of individual behavioural variation in a highly social fish.
2013 Seminar, University of Padova, Italy. Aggression, individual behavioural type and the social environment.