Zoologist specialising in vertebrate biology, behaviour and cognitive biology, bioacoustics and sound communication, zoo biology and species conservation. I studied Biology and completed my doctorate in 2006. Since 2009, I have been working as a scientist at the Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna, where I founded the Mammal Communication Lab in 2011. Since 2023, my research group is affiliated to the Acoustic research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. I researchesthe communication of mammals; currently, I am focussing on African and Asian elephants. Moreover, my research team also studies the communication of cheetahs, lions, giraffes, bears and African wild dogs. Since October 1, 2025, I am a professor for Zoo Conservation Science at the Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna, funded by the Vienna Zoo. https://www.angelastoeger.com/en/