Hanna Kokko
Principal Investigator
- Project: Project A.17, Project A.18, Project A.21
- Research Group
- Address: iomE, Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 7 (room 00.284)
- Phone: 06131-39-30340
- Since 2026: Member of the Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina
- Since 2023: Alexander von Humboldt Professor, University of Mainz
- 2014-2022: Professor of Evolutionary Ecology, University of Zurich
- 2014: Short-term fellow (2.5 months), Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
- 2010-2014: Australian Laureate Fellow & Professor of Evolutionary Ecology, Australian National University
- 2009-2010: Sabbatical year at the Australian National University
- 2004-2010: Professor of Animal Ecology, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 2003-2004: Academy Research Fellow, Unversity of Helsinki, Finland
- 2002-2003: Lecturer, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- 2000-2002: Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, University of Glasgow, UK
- 1998-2000: Marie Curie Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Education:
- 1997: PhD “Evolution of honest sexual displays”, University of Helsinki, highest grade laudatur
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Zug R, Foitzik S, Kokko H (2025)
Luck can explain the positive link between fecundity and longevity: The Matthew effect in social insects and beyond Journal of Evolutionary Biology, voaf094 -
Sistermans T, Darras H, Rognet V, Beros S, Hartke J, Stoldt M, Libbrecht R, Kokko H, Foitzik S (2025)
Parasite prevalence in a social host has colony-wide impacts on transcriptional activity and survival Evolution, qpaf118 -
Kokko H (2024)
Who is afraid of modelling time as a continuous variable? Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15(10):1736-1756 -
Brenninger FA, Kovalov V, Kokko H (2024)
Sex-specific immunocompetence: resistance and tolerance can both be futile but not under the same circumstances Evolution Letters, qrae066 -
McLean DJ, Herberstein ME, Kokko H
(2024)
Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291:20241052 -
de Vries C, Galipaud M, Kokko H (2023)
Extrinsic mortality and senescence: a guide for the perplexed Peer Community Journal, 3:e29 -
Luepold SB , Kokko H, Grendelmeier A, Pasinelli G (2023)
Habitat detection, habitat choice copying or mating benefits: What drives conspecific attraction in a nomadic songbird? Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(1):195-206 -
Ekrem RK, Kokko H (2023)
Sexual conflict over phenological traits: selection for protandry can lock populations into temporally mismatched reproduction Evolution, 77(3):789–800 -
Kokko H, Jennions MD (2023)
Is more always better when it comes to mating? PLOS Biology, 21(1):e3001955 -
Kovalov V, Kokko H (2023)
Fertility signalling games: should males obey the signal? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378(1876):20210499 -
Runge JN, Kokko H, Lindholm AK (2022)
Selfish migrants: How a meiotic driver is selected to increase dispersal Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 35(4):621-632 -
Karisto P, Duplouy A, de Vries C, Kokko H (2022)
Positive fitness effects help explain the broad range of Wolbachia prevalences in natural populations Peer Community Journal, 2:e76 -
Kovalov V, Kokko H (2022)
Selection for male stamina can help explain costly displays with cost-minimizing female choice Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76(5):69 -
Aubier TG , Kokko H (2022)
Volatile social environments can favour investments in quality over quantity of social relationships Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289:20220281 -
Ridley AR, Nelson-Flower MJ, Wiley EM, Humphries DJ, Kokko H (2022)
Kidnapping intergroup young: an alternative strategy to maintain group size in the group-living pied babbler (Turdoides bicolor) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1851):20210153 -
Kokko H (2021)
The stagnation paradox: the ever-improving but (more or less) stationary population fitness Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1963):20212145