Luisa María Jaimes Niño
Principal Investigator

- Address: iomE, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15 (Biozentrum I, room: 01.452), 55128 Mainz
- Phone: +49 6131 39 26717
Work experience:
- Since 2026: Group Leader, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
- 2024 – 2026: Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Researcher.
Project: The colony ontongeny: growth, reproduction and dispersal in a superorganism - 2023 – 2024: Postdoctoral researcher, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz. Project: Spatial learning in an individually foraging ant
Education:
- 2018 - 2023: Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) Biology, University of Regensburg, Germany
- 2015 - 2018: M.Sc. Evolution, Ecology and Systematics, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Germany
- 2017 – 2018: International Exchange of Quantitative Ecology Module, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
- 2008 – 2014: Bachelor of Science in Biology, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
- 2009 – 2014: Bachelor of Science in Microbiology, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
- 2011 – 2012: International Exchange in Biodiversité Ecologie et Biologie des organismes, Université Montpellier 2, France
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Süß LM, Oettler J, Jaimes-Nino LM (2025)
Fertility correlates with queen size and sperm quality in an ant PLoS One, 20(12): e0336378 -
Jaimes-Nino LM, Oettler J (2025)
The pace and shape of ant aging Biological Reviews, 100: 2071–2083