CV

CURRICULUM VITAE - Revised: September 2008
Lee A. Miller, Ph.D.
Institute of Biology
Syddansk Universitet-Odense
DK 5230 Odense M
Denmark
Phone: +45 6550 2466 Fax: +45 6550 2786 E-mail: [email protected]


Education:
B.A. 1963 Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
A.M. 1965 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ph.D. 1969 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Thesis Advisers - Professor F.M. Carpenter,
Department of Biology. Harvard University.
Professor K.D. Roeder, Department of Biology.
Tufts University.
Title of thesis - "Hearing in the Green Lace Wing, Chrysopa carnea (Neuroptera)" - August, 1968.

Academic Positions:
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1964-65, 1967.
NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, 1968-69.
Vikar Amanuensis (Assistant Professor), Zoophysiologcal Laboratory B, University of Copenhagen, 1969-70.
Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Kentucky, 1970-72.
Lektor (Associate Professor) at the Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, 1973- (Emeritus from May 2007)

Leaves of absence:
Dr. Malcolm Burrows, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, England, August 1977.
Dr. Jeffrey Wine, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California, April 1979 - June 1980.
Instructor, Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood Hole MA, USA, Neural Systems and Behavior, June-July 1984.
Dr. Jim Simmons, Dept. of Psychology, Brown University, September 1990 - August 1991.
Marine Biology Research Center, Kerteminde, September 2003 – February 2004.
Major Administrative Jobs:
Departmental Chairman, Inst. of Biology, Odense Univ. 1974-1975.
Member of the Faculty Senate, Natural Sciences Odense Univ. 1978-1980.
Member of Study Committees, Faculty of Natural Sciences, 1981-1988.
Head of Institute, Inst. of Biology, Odense Univ. 1993-1995.

Professional service:
Referee for the following journals:
Marine Ecology Progress Series
Royal Zoological Society, London
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Journal of Comparative Physiology
Journal of Experimental Biology
Functional Ecology
Marine Mammal Science
Science
Nature
Grant reviews:
Norwegian Natural Sciences Research Council
National Science Foundation USA
Department of Agriculture USA
Editorial Board Member
Aquatic Mammals
Advisory Board- Acoustical Society of America- Bioacoustics

Memberships in Professional Organizations
Sigma XI, 1968 -:
Society for Neuroscience, 1972-1988
American Society of Zoologists, 1972-1993
Society for Experimental Biology, 1975-
Int. Soc. for Neuroethology, 1984- (member of board 1993-95)
American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1984-
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 1990-2001
Society for Marine Mammalogy, 1999-
European Cetacean Society, 2000-
European Association for Aquatic Mammals, 2002-
Acoustical Society of America, 2000-
Elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America - 2005

Masters and Ph.D. students since 2000
Masters: Tim Kirketerp 2000, Troels Jacobsen 2001, Jacob Rye Hansen 2001, Oluf Damsgaard Henriksen 2001, Bruno Mølgaard Geertsen 2002, Nina Eriksen 2003, Isabel Ebbesen 2003, Pernille Bondo Harders 2003, Søren R. Thomsen 2003, Malene Simon 2004, Kimie Salo 2004, Mille Rasch 2004, Trine Kristensen 2004, Outi Tervo 2006, Jeppe Dalgaard Balle 2006, Ana Carolina Gregório Atem 2006, Meike Lindenschmidt 2007, Katharina Ottosen, 2008
Ph.D.: Marianne Egebjerg Jensen 2000, Jonas Teilmann 2001, Magnus Wahlberg 2002, Marianne H. Rasmussen 2004, Susi Manuela Clermont Edrén, Signe May Andersen, Ursula Verfuss

Forskningsområde

Akustisk kommunikation, biosonar hos tandhvaler og flagermus

Forskningsinformation

Subjects of Past Research and Achievements: Neurobiology of earthworm giant axon synaptic transmission, Neurobiology of crayfish escape behaviour, Neurobiology of hearing in insects, Neurobiology and behaviour of escape responses in insects that can hear bats, Bat biosonar and prey capture, Odontocete biosonar of animals in captivity and free-ranging animals, Odontocete biosonar and prey capture, Hearing by odontocetes.

Min forskning omhandler hørelse, lyd kommunikation, og biosonar hos, flagermus, tandhvaler og insekter. Over en 10årig periode har jeg drivet denne forskning som medlem af Danmarks Grundforskningsfonds Center for Lydkommunikation (1994-2003). Hørelse hos insekter drejer sig mest om deres undvige adfærd til flagermus. Interaktioner mellem flagermus og insekter foregår i felten og laboratoriet. Vi er interesseret hvordan flagermus tilpasser deres ekkolodsignaler til forskellige aspekter i deres omgivelser. Spørgsmål som følsomhed af deres sonar overfor udefra kommende og forstyrrende lydsignaler studeres i laboratoriet. Felt undersøgelser over biosonar og lydkommunikation hos narhvaler, kaskelotter, hvidnæse delfiner og marsvin har formål at øge vores viden i hvordan disse hvaler benytter lyd i naturlige omgivelser. Vi også studerer hvordan marsvin benytter deres sonar til byttefangst samt hørelse hos marsvin i instituttets facilitet i Kerteminde og i samarbejde med Fjord & Bælt.

Nylig og igangværende forskning inkluderer marsvins evne til at høre ekkoer i støj undersøgt ved elektrofysiologiske målinger fra dyrets overflage (så kaldt ”auditory brainstem recording”). Der også undersøges hvordan marsvin benytter sonar til byttefangst, marsvinenes adfærds og fysiologiske responser til skræmme lyd, lyd produktion hos marsvin, satellit studier over marsvinenes færden og dykke adfærd i naturen (i samarbejde med DMU), studier over kaskelottens brug af lyd under formodet fouragering (i samarbejde med Aarhus Universitet), hydrofon array studier over klik lyde og fløjt fra hvidnæse delfiner, samt studie over hvidnæsens hørelse vha. playback af kunstig klik lyde og toner til frit svømmende delfiner i de Islandske farvande.