Miriam Liedvogel is Director of the Institute of Avian Research at Vogelwarte Helgoland and Professor of Ornithology at Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Until 2022 she also continues as leader of her Max Planck Research Group on Behavioural Genomics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. Liedvogel held a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford Universtiy, UK, and a Feodor Lynen Fellowship for research at Lund University, Sweden. Liedvogel’s research interests include bird migration, evolution, behavioral genomics and the molecular mechanisms of animal orientation and navigation. As a principal investigator, Liedvogel’s research has been supported by various funding schemes, e.g. Max Planck Society, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German Research Foundation (DFG), European Commission (FP7), German Academic Exchange Scheme (DAAD). She has received several awards and fellowships, for instance the JED Williams Medal.