Dr. Viktoria Siewert
viktoria.siewert@uni-muenster.de
Tel: (+49)-(0)251-83-21006
Room 147
Research Foci
- Emotion and Cognition
- Animal Welfare
- Refinement of animal experiments and housing conditions
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Academic Education
- Ph.D. studies at the Institute for Neuro- and Behavioural Biology, University of Münster
- Master of Science in Biosciences, University of Münster
- Bachelor of Sciene in Biosciences, University of Münster
Positions
- Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster
- PhD student at the Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Münster
Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
- Siewert, V, Bierbaum, L, Gleske, M, Mundinger, C, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, and Richter, SH. . “Effects of enrichment removal on cognitive judgement bias of mice: a comparison of two paradigms.” Frontiers in Veterinary Science 13 1813283. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2026.1813283.
- Bračić, M, Bierbaum, L, Peng, M, Nimalavachchlan, L, Siewert, V, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, and Richter, SH. . “The behavioural ecology of optimism: judgement bias and foraging under predation risk in mice.” Animal Behaviour 219 122991. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.10.005.
- Siewert, V, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, and Richter, SH. . “Optimism and pessimism: a concept for behavioural ecology.” Biological reviews 100: 1152–1162. doi: 10.1111/brv.13178.
- Bierbaum, L, Mundinger, C, Siewert, S, Kaiser, S, and Richter, SH. . “Forever an optimist? Investigating the temporal consistency of optimism within and across life phases in rats.” Animal Behaviour 229 123334. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123334.
- Quante, SM, Siewert, V, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, and Richter, SH. . “The power of a touch: Regular touchscreen training but not its termination affects hormones and behavior in mice.” Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 17. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1112780.
- Bračić, M, Bohn, L, Siewert, V, von, Kortzfleisch V, Schielzeth, H, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, and Richter, SH. . “Once an Optimist, Always an Optimist? Studying Cognitive Judgment Bias in Mice.” Behavioral Ecology 33: 775–788.
- Siewert, V, and Richter, SH. . “Always Looking on the Bright Side of Life?” forschung. Das Magazin der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft 3 (4): 24–27.
- Krakenberg, V, Wewer, M, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, and Richter, SH. . “Regular touchscreen training affects faecal corticosterone metabolites and anxiety-like behaviour in mice.” Behavioural Brain Research 401: 113080. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2020.113080.
- Feige-Diller, J, Krakenberg, V, Bierbaum, L, Seifert, L, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, and Richter, SH. . “The effects of different feeding routines on welfare in laboratory mice.” Frontiers in Veterinary Science 6: 479.
- Krakenberg, Viktoria, Siestrup, Sophie, Palme, Rupert, Kaiser, Sylvia, Sachser, Norbert, and Richter, Sophie Helene. . “Effects of different social experiences on emotional state in mice.” Scientific Reports 10 (15255). doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71994-9.
- Krakenberg, V, von, Kortzfleisch V, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, and Richter, SH. . “Differential effects of serotonin transporter genotype on anxiety-like behavior and cognitive judgment bias in mice.” Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 13: 263.
- Krakenberg, V, Woigk, I, Garcia, Rodriguez L, Kästner, N, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, and Richter, SH. . “Technology or ecology? New tools to assess cognitive judgement bias in mice.” Behavioural Brain Research 362: 279–287. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.01.021.