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Research interests
Observing/testing collective behaviors of animal species
Automating research processes in animal behavioral biology, using open- source software/hardware tools.
Current position
Post-doc researcher in Biology cluster, Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Working for ANIML project; studying budgerigar colony
IT technician in NeuroInformatics lab, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna.
Education
PhD in Cognitive Biology (2014-2018), University of Vienna, Austria
MSc in Cognitive Science (2011-2013), University of Vienna, Austria
BSc in Biology (2005-2011), Andong National University, South Korea
Associate degree in Computer Science (web developer) (1998-2001), Shinhan college, South Korea
Work experiences
-- IT technician, 2025-present
NeuroInformatics lab, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna
-- PostDoc researcher, 2024-present
Biology cluster, Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences
-- PostDoc researcher, 2020-2024
Cremer Group, Institute of Science & Technology Austria
Ant behaviors and developments of analysis software and experimental setups for experiments to investigate social immunity of ants.
-- Software & hardware developer for animal behavior experiments, 2011-2020
Cognitive Biology Dept., University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
-- Veterinary assistant, 2007-2009
Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital, NJ, USA
-- Lab assistant in Entomology lab, 2005
Andong National University, Andong, Republic of Korea
-- IT manager, 2004
Nowon Elementary School, Seoul, Republic of Korea
-- Web programmer, 2000-2003
Taxworld, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Publications
Wagner, B., Šlipogor, V., Oh, J., Varga, M., & Hoeschele, M. (2023). A comparison between common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) and human infants sheds light on traits proposed to be at the root of human octave equivalence. Developmental Science, e13395.
Viljakainen, L., Fürst, M. A., Grasse, A. V., Jurvansuu, J., Oh, J., Tolonen, L., ... & Cremer, S. (2023). Antiviral immune response reveals host-specific virus infections in natural ant populations. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, 1119002.
Szabo, B., Mangione, R., Rath, M., Pašukonis, A., Reber, S. A., Oh, J., ... & Ringler, E. (2021). Naïve Poison Frog tadpoles use bi-modal cues to avoid insect predators but not heterospecific predatory tadpoles. Journal of Experimental Biology.
Reber, S. A., Oh, J., Janisch, J., Stevenson, C., Foggett, S., & Wilkinson, A. (2021). Early life differences in behavioral predispositions in two Alligatoridae species. Animal Cognition, 1-12.
Oh, J. (2019) A conveyor feeder for animal experiments. BioRxiv, 801993
Reber, S.A., Šlipogor, V., Oh, J., Ravignani, A., Hoeschele, M., Bugnyar, T., Fitch, W.T. (2018) Common marmosets are sensitive to simple dependencies at variable distances in an artificial grammar. Evolution and Human Behavior PDF
Oh, J., Šlipogor, V., & Fitch, W. T. (2018) Artificial Visual Stimuli for Animal Experiments: An Experimental Evaluation in a Prey Capture Context With Common Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Journal of Comparative Psychology PDF
Oh, J., Hoeschele, M., Reber, S. A., Šlipogor, V., Bugnyar, T., & Fitch, W. T. (2018). A technological framework for running and analyzing animal head turning experiments. Behavior research methods, 50(3), 1154-1165. [OpenAccess]LINK
Oh, J., Hofer, R., & Fitch, W. T. (2017). An open source automatic feeder for animal experiments. HardwareX, 1, 13-21. [OpenAccess]LINK
Oh, J., & Fitch, W. T. (2017). CATOS (Computer Aided Training/Observing System): Automating animal observation and training. Behavior research methods, 49(1), 13-23. PDF
Herbst, C. T., Oh, J., Vydrová, J., & Švec, J. G. (2015). DigitalVHI—a freeware open-source software application to capture the Voice Handicap Index and other questionnaire data in various languages. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 40(2), 72-76.
Martins, M. D. J. D., Muršič, Z., Oh, J., & Fitch, W. T. (2015). Representing visual recursion does not require verbal or motor resources. Cognitive psychology, 77, 20-41.
Martins, M. J., Florian P. Fischmeister, E. Puig-Waldmüller, J. Oh, Alexander Geißler, Simon Robinson, W. Tecumseh Fitch, and Roland Beisteiner. "Fractal image perception provides novel insights into hierarchical cognition." NeuroImage 96 (2014): 300-308.
Westphal-Fitch, G., Oh, J., & Fitch, W. (2013). Studying aesthetics with the method of production: Effects of context and local symmetry. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 7(1), 13
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