Susanne Sangenstedt (*1989 in Bonn-Duisdorf) started her studies of Bioscience at the University of Muenster in 2008. She completed her Bachelor thesis with the title „Dominance Hierarchy and Spatial Organization of Guinea Pigs Living in a High-Density Population“ at the Department of Behavioural Biology under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Norbert Sachser in 2011. During her MSc studies at the University of Muenster, she performed several internships at the Psychology Departments of the University of Muenster and of Berlin. Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sylvia Kaiser she completed her Master thesis in 2014 which concentrated on effects of the early social environment in male adolescent wild cavies. In her PhD project, which she started in April 2014, she will again have a look at the influence of prenatal and early postnatal social stress in wild cavies under the topic „The Social Modulation of Behaviour, Cognition and Stress Reactivity during Pregnancy and Lactation“ (DFG-Forschergruppe, FOR 1232).