Marie Dacke

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Marie Dacke
Born1973 (age 50–51)
NationalitySwedish
Alma materLund University
TelevisionStudio Natur
AwardsIg Nobel Prize, Forskar Grand Prix

Marie Ann-Charlotte Dacke is a professor of Sensory Biology, at the Lund Vision Group in

honorary professor at the University of the Witwatersrand
in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Early life and career

Dacke went to high school in

Ph.D. on Celestial Orientation in Dim Light.[2] During this time, she discovered a unique compass organ in spiders, a study which was published in Nature in 1999.[3] A few years later she revealed the first evidence of an animal able to use the dim pattern of polarized moon-light for orientation, a study also published in Nature in 2003.[4]
She completed her Ph.D. in 2003 under the supervision of Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson.

After her Ph.D., she spent two years at the Centre for Visual Sciences at the

postdoctoral fellow.[5] In 2007, she returned to Lund University as a research fellow and in 2011 she became an associate professor in Sensory Biology. She became a Professor
in Sensory Biology in 2017.

Dacke's research is focused on navigation and orientation in insects, in particular orientation in dung beetles.

PNAS) in 2015[11] and Current Biology in 2016.[12]

In 2018 Dacke received funding from the

iScience in 2022.[15]

Dacke has been elected a fellow of the Young Academy of Sweden (2011), Royal Physiographic Society of Lund (2017),

Royal Entomological Society of London (2018), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
(2022) and Societas Ad Sciendum (2023).

Science communication

Dacke has been a panel member on the Swedish TV show Studio Natur (currently streaming on SVT Play) since 2010.[16]

In 2012 Dacke was named best science communicator in Sweden in the national competition Forskar Grand Prix (Science Grand Prix).[17]

In 2012 Dacke was one of the scientists to appear in a series about research and researchers produced by the

TV4.[18]

In 2019 she gave the Royal Entomological Society's Verrall Lecture at the Natural History Museum, London, speaking about As the crow flies, and the beetle rolls: straight-line orientation from behaviour to neurons.[19]

Dacke has authored two books; Trädgårdsdjur - myllret och mångfalden som växterna älskar (Roos & Tegnér,

ISBN 9789189215368
), in 2021.


References

  1. ^ Jacobsson, Håkan (7 September 2015). "Insekterna lär henne hur man hittar rätt". www.skd.se. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  2. ^ Dacke, Marie (16 March 2024). Celestial Orientation in Dim Light (thesis/doccomp). Lund University.
  3. S2CID 4384284
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  4. PMID 12840748
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  5. ^ "Marie Dacke". Department of Biology. 16 May 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  6. ^ "Marie Dacke – Sveriges Unga Akademi". www.sverigesungaakademi.se. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  7. ^ "Lund University researchers win Ig Nobel Prize". Lund University. 13 September 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Winners Ig Nobel Prize 2013". Improbable. August 2006. Archived from the original on 9 January 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Marie Dacke explains how dung beetles navigate". Improbable Research. 24 September 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  10. PMID 23352694
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  11. PMC 4568659
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  12. ^ https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(16)30206-8.pdf
  13. ^ "Prestigious grants for research on biological compasses and the threat to pollinating insects". Lund University. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  14. PMID 31235569
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  15. PMID 36274940
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  16. ^ Sweden, Sveriges Television AB, Stockholm, Studio natur (in Swedish), retrieved 4 September 2019{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ "Marie Dacke is nominated best science communicator in Sweden". Forskar Grand Prix (in Swedish). Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  18. ^ Pehrsson, Sofie (6 June 2012). "SSF-forskning på TV".
  19. ^ "2019 Verrall Lecture". royensoc.co.uk. Royal Entomological Society. Retrieved 21 October 2020.

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