Staff
Director
Administrative Staff

Anna Hartmann
(Grants Coordinator)

Franziska Pfab
(Assistant to the Director)

Anja Schaufler
(Department Assistant)
Research Group Leaders

Kirsten Bos

Alexander Herbig

Kathrin Nägele

Philipp Stockhammer
Postdoctoral Researchers

Aida Andrades Valtueña

Rodrigo Barquera

Ainash Childebayeva

Anja Furtwängler

Guido Alberto Gnecchi Ruscone

Joscha Gretzinger

Taylor Hermes

Alexander Hübner

Casey Kirkpatrick

Luka Papac

Eleonore Pape

Federica Pierini

Matthäus Rest

Thomas Lesley Sitter

Eirini Skourtanioti

Maria Spyrou

Alexander Stoessel

Irina Marie Velsko

Vanessa Villalba
Doctoral Students

Judith Ballesteros Villascán

Ruth Boersma

Lorenza Coppola Bove

Hamza Dallali

Alena Filer

Ayshin Ghalichi

Karen Giffin

Eden Hill

Alina Naomi Hiß

Lei Huang

Yilei Huang

Megan Michel

Gunnar Neumann

Sandra Ellen Penske

Björn Reichhardt

Jae Rodriguez

Nada Salem

Eleni Seferidou

Arev Pelin Sümer

Anthi Tiliakou

Luca Traverso

Teresa Zeibig
Technical Staff

Raffaela Bianco

Ana Maria de Melo Moreira Gomes

Rita Radzeviciute

Lena Semerau

Antje Wissgott
Student Assistants

Dhananjaya Aththanayaka

Tejaswinee Devi Budoo

Trija Chowdhury

Annemarie Kaiser

Özlem Kirav

Annekatrin Lippold

Hellen Mager

Nina Michel

Alina Lea Sandberg

Antonia Walter

Luis Wirsching

Aleyna Xhemaili

Perihan Pinar Yildiz
Associated Researchers and Guests

Aurora Allshouse

Beatriz Amorim

Sun Bing

Maxime Borry

Marina Bretos

Stephen Clayton

Michal Feldman

Tiago Ferraz

Lina Herbst

Percy Hei Chun Ho

Irene Högner

Pavlína Ingrová

Xiaowen Jia

Arthur Kocher

Vanessa Linares

Frederik Lutz

Kerttu Majander

Reed Morgan

Mikkel Nørtoft

Eleftheria Orfanou

Sanni Peltola

Tom Richtermeier

Maïté Rivollat

Adam Ben Rohrlach

Nelli-Johanna Saari

Elina Salmela

Clemens Schmid

Maximilian Schumacher

Ashley Scott

Luise Tiemann

John Pelham Walden

Ke Wang

Xiaoran Wang

Yuyang Wang

He Yu

Denisa Zlámalová

Sanni Översti
Alumni/Alumnae of the Department for Archaeogenetics
2015-2020 | Prof. Cosimo Posth | Ph.D. Student, Post-doc, Group Leader; now Junior Professor of Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen |
2016-2019 | Prof. Choongwon Jeong, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Researcher, Research group leader; now Assistant Professor at the Seoul National University, School of Biologial Sciences |
2013*-2018 | Dr. Alexander Immel | Ph.D. Student; now Postdoctoral Researcher at the IKMB (Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology), Kiel University |
2016-2018 | Dr. Marcel Keller | PhD Student; now Research Assistant at the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Estonia |
2016-2018 | Dr. Felix M. Key | Postdoctoral Researcher; now Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
2015-2017 | Prof. Dr. Ben Krause Kyora | Postdoctoral researcher, now Professor for Ancient DNA Analysis at the IKMB (Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology), Kiel University |
2013*-2017 | Dr. Allison Mann | Ph.D. Student, Postdoctoral Researcher; now Postdoctoral Researcher at the Columbia University |
2013*-2017 | Dr. Alexander Peltzer | Ph.D. Student; now Postdoctoral Researcher at the Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC), Universität Tübingen |
2016-2017 | Dr. Niall O'Sullivan | Ph.D. Student; now IT Specialist at DNM, Dublin |
2013*-2017 | Dr. Åshild Vågene | Ph.D. Student; now Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Copenhagen |
2015-2017 | Chuan-Chao Wang, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Researcher; now Professor, Director, at the Institute of Anthropology, Xiamen University |
*Started as Ph.D. Student at the Department for Archaeo- and Paleogenetics at University of Tübingen