Dr. Vivek Hari Sridhar is a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz, Germany, affiliated with the Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies . His research focuses on spatiotemporal computation in biological systems, particularly how individual neural interactions drive collective decision-making and movement patterns in animals. Education Bachelors: Manipal Institute of Technology (2008–2012) Masters: Erasmus Mundus Masters Programme in Evolutionary Biology (2013–2015) PhD: International Max Planck Research Society for Organismal Biology/University of Konstanz (2015–2020) Research Interests Dr. Sridhar investigates how simple neural interactions scale to emergent group-level behaviors in animal collectives, using tools from computer vision, machine learning, statistical physics, and individual-based modeling. His work bridges the gap between individual decision-making and collective dynamics across evolutionary timescales. Software Development He is the primary developer of Tracktor , an open-source OpenCV-based object tracking software designed for analyzing animal behavior in diverse environments. The tool supports single- and multi-object tracking while maintaining identity, with applications in adaptive thresholding and spatiotemporal data extraction.








