1. Brief Introduction

Studied biology and mathematics at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and the Ruhr-University Bochum. PhD (Dr. rer nat.) in Biology 1978. Habilitation ( venia legend) in 1985 from Ruhr-University Bochum. Guest Professor at the Department of Ecology, University of Bergen, Norway. Heisenberg Professor at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. From 1987 to 1999 Full Professor and Director of the Department of Behavioral Ecology and Vertebrate Biology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. From 1999 elected Scientific Member of the Max-Planck-Society and founding Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany. From 2000 Professor of the University of Kiel, Germany. From 2018 Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany.

2. Most important publications:

• Reputation helps solve the ‘tragedy of the commons’

M Milinski, D Semmann, HJ Krambeck,Nature 415 (6870), 424-426, 2002

• Cooperation through image scoring in humans

C Wedekind, M Milinski, Science 288 (5467), 850-852, 2000

• Female sticklebacks use male coloration in mate choice and hence avoid parasitized males

M Milinski, T Bakker, Nature 344 (6264), 330-333, 1990

• Influence of a predator on the optimal foraging behaviour of sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.)

M Milinski, R Heller, Nature 275 (5681), 642-644, 1978

• Tit for tat in sticklebacks and the evolution of cooperation

M Milinski, Nature 325 (6103), 433-435, 1987

• The efficient interaction of indirect reciprocity and costly punishment

B Rockenbach, M Milinski, Nature 444 (7120), 718-723, 2006

• The collective-risk social dilemma and the prevention of simulated dangerous climate change

M Milinski, RD Sommerfeld, HJ Krambeck, FA Reed, J Marotzke, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (7), 2291-2294, 2008

• Female sticklebacks count alleles in a strategy of sexual selection explaining MHC polymorphism

TBH Reusch, MA HaÈberli, PB Aeschlimann, M Milinski, Nature 414 (6861), 300-302, 2001

• Stabilizing the Earth’s climate is not a losing game: Supporting evidence from public goods experiments

M Milinski, D Semmann, HJ Krambeck, J Marotzke, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (11), 3994-3998, 2006

• Mate choice decisions of stickleback females predictably modified by MHC peptide ligands

M Milinski, S Griffiths, KM Wegner, TBH Reusch, A Haas-Assenbaum, ..., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (12), 4414-4418, 2005

• Parasite selection for immunogenetic optimality

KM Wegner, M Kalbe, J Kurtz, TBH Reusch, M Milinski, Science 301 (5638), 1343-1343, 2003

• Volunteering leads to rock–paper–scissors dynamics in a public goods game

D Semmann, HJ Krambeck, M Milinski, Nature 425 (6956), 390-393, 2003

• Rapid and adaptive evolution of MHC genes under parasite selection in experimental vertebrate populations

C Eizaguirre, TL Lenz, M Kalbe, M Milinski, Nature communications 3 (1), 1-6, 2012

• Working memory constrains human cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma

M Milinski, C Wedekind, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95 (23), 13755-13758, 1998

• Intra-and intergenerational discounting in the climate game

J Jacquet, K Hagel, C Hauert, J Marotzke, T Röhl, M Milinski, Nature climate change 3 (12), 1025-1028, 2013

• The major histocompatibility complex, sexual selection, and mate choice

M Milinski, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 159-186, 2006

• Gossip as an alternative for direct observation in games of indirect reciprocity

RD Sommerfeld, HJ Krambeck, D Semmann, M Milinski, Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 104 (44), 17435-17440, 2007

• Honest signaling in trust interactions: Smiles rated as genuine induce trust and signal higher earning opportunities

S Centorrino, E Djemai, A Hopfensitz, M Milinski, P Seabright, Evolution and Human Behavior 36 (1), 8-16, 2015

• Extortion subdues human players but is finally punished in the prisoner’s dilemma

C Hilbe, T Röhl, M Milinski, Nature communications 5 (1), 1-6, 2014

• Democratic decisions establish stable authorities that overcome the paradox of second-order punishment

C Hilbe, A Traulsen, T Röhl, M Milinski, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (2), 752-756, 2014

• Spying on others evolves

M Milinski, B Rockenbach, Science 317 (5837), 464-465, 2007

• When parasites disagree: Evidence for parasite‐induced sabotage of host manipulation

N Hafer, M Milinski, Evolution 69 (3), 611-620, 2015

• The economic interaction between climate change mitigation, climate migration and poverty

J Marotzke, D Semmann, M Milinski, Nature Climate Change 10 (6), 518-525, 2020