Charlotte Hemelrijk, co-ordinator of the Groningen node, is assistant professor in theoretical Biology at the University of Groningen. She is studying self-organisation of social behaviour and its relation to evolution. She does this with the help of computer simulations and studies hypotheses delivered by these models in real animals. Her main lines of research at present are social behaviour of primates and schooling of fish. She has studied the "Reciprocity and other social relationships in captive chimpanzees" and has done experimental work on social exchange behaviour of macaques. Subsequently, she developed models of emergent social behaviour (particularly relevant to behaviour of primates and fish). She has about 50 publications, edited two journal issues on self-organisation and behaviour and organised an international conference in Monte Verit in Switzerland on "self-organisation and evolution of social behaviour".
H. Kunz and C. K. Hemelrijk Artificial fish schools: collective effects of school size, body size, and body form Artificial Life 9, 237 (2003)
C. K. Hemelrijk Understanding of social behaviour with the help of complexity science (Invited paper) Ethology 108, 655 (2002)
J. Krause, D. Hoare, S. Krause, C. K. Hemelrijk & D. I. Rubenstein Leadership in Fish Shoals Fish and Fisheries 1, 82 (2000)
