Prof. Marta Manser is a Swiss professor of Animal Behaviour in the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich.
Marta was the first PhD student at the Kalahari Meerkat Project working under the supervision of Tim Clutton-Brock at the University of Cambridge, where the communication studies of the meerkats first began in 1995. From 2002 on Marta co-directed the Kalahari Research Centre together with Tim Clutton-Brock. 2017 the Kalahari Research Trust moved to Zurich and Marta took over the role of the Secretary of the Trustees. Since then Marta directs together with co-director Tim the Kalahari Research Centre.
Prof. Tim Clutton-Brock has been based at the University of Cambridge since 1976 and was the Prince Philip Professor of Animal Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from 2007 to 2013.
He established the Large Animal Research Group (LARG) in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge in 1978, and continues to lead it. Tim founded the Kalahari Meerkat Project in 1993, and the Kalahari Research Trust and the Kalahari Research Centre in 2001. Between 2001 and 2017, he acted as the Secretary to the Trustees of the Kalahari Research Trust.
