Staff Profile
Dan Zitterbart
ASSISTANT SCIENTIST
Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering
Email: dzitterbart@whoi.edu
Phone: +1 508 289 3613
Address: Bigelow 213B, Mail Stop: 11
Website: https://www2.whoi.edu/staff/dzitterbart/
Lab/Group Site: https://www2.whoi.edu/staff/dzitterbart/
Education
Dr. rer-nat (PhD) Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 2013
Diploma Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 2006
Research Interests
Ocean Acoustics, Ambient Noise, Marine Mammal Acoustics, Collective Dynamics, Seabird colony structures, Animal Migration
Affiliations
Biophysics Group, Department of Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Awards
- ONR Young Investigator Award (YIP) (2019)
- WHOI Innovative Technology Award (2018)
- Mary Sears visitor Award (2018)
- WHOI Interdisciplinary Award (2017)
- Doherty Postdoctoral Scholarship Award, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (2015)
- Briese-Award for Marine Science for Young Investigators, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (2013)
- Highlights of 2013 collection, New Journal of Physics for the article „Origin of traveling waves in an emperor penguin huddle” (2013)
- Best Poster Prize, International Summer School for Pattern Recognition (ISSPR), British Society of Pattern Recognition (2010)
- Ohmprize of the University of Erlangen for extraordinary thesis in physics (2007)
- American Society of Cell Biology International Student Travel Award (2007)
- Prize of the German Chemical Industry fund for the valedictorian in chemistry and physics (1999)
