Lana Takau

PhD

Consultant/Contractor

adptation and flexibility Analytical Expertise Analytical thinking animal experimentation Attention to detail Client Relationships Core Skills • Research & Development: Expertise in designing data analyst Interdisciplinary Research Manuscript writing Microsoft Word Research and Development research management Supervision and other wide range of research skill

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I implemented the on-the-ground component of the ‘Chemical Perceptual Space for Olfactory Perception (CROWN)’ project within the Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychotherapy and Psychomatics under the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität (Germany). This involved spearheading the successful recruitment of 100 project participants and implementation of the surveys, translation of the survey documents into the local language and conducting of the lemmatization of the data collected.

Directed logistics and implementation of dog experiments on dogs and dog owners in Vanuatu for the DogLab project at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (Germany).

I carried out linguistic documentation and data processing of over 200 specialized vocabulary in over 22 indigenous Vanuatu languages while working as a postdoctoral research fellow under the comparative oceanic linguistics (COOL) project with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany). I also Co-organized and co-convened the 3rd International Conference on Vanuatu linguistics.