Staff
Director
Administrative Staff

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

Joscha Gretzinger

Alexander Hübner

Margaux Lefebvre

Luka Papac

Sandra Ellen Penske

Federica Pierini

Adam Ben Rohrlach

Clemens Schmid

Maria Spyrou

Alexander Stoessel
Doctoral Students

Beatriz Amorim

Ivany Jocelyne Argueta Mejia

Judith Ballesteros Villascán

Aparajita Bhattacharya

Ruth Boersma

Alina Naomi Hiß

Lei Huang

Xiaowen Jia

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

Giuliana Eboli Sotorilli

Sebastian Großherr

Diana Iraíz Hernández Zaragoza

Johannes Liebau

Rita Radzeviciute

Antonia Walter

Antje Wissgott
Student Assistants

Dhananjaya Aththanayaka Mudiyanselage

Tejaswinee Devi Budoo

Trija Chowdhury

Annemarie Kaiser

Charlotte Lindörfer

Nina Michel

Manish Rathi

Emily Reichel

Alina Lea Sandberg

Friedrich Schaper

Maximilian Schumacher

Perihan Pinar Yildiz
Associated Researchers and Guests

Maxime Borry

Marina Bretos

Stephen Clayton

Lorenza Coppola Bove

Joaquin del Rio

Michal Feldman

Tiago Ferraz

Laura Flore

Anja Furtwängler

Ayshin Ghalichi

Karen Giffin

Taylor Hermes

Eden Hill

Percy Hei Chun Ho

Yilei Huang

Pavlína Ingrová

Donghee Kim

Casey Kirkpatrick

Arthur Kocher

Lucie Krausová

Denise Kühnert

Hellen Mager

Megan Michel

Priyanka Mondal

Reed Morgan

Aikorkem Mustafayeva

Mikkel Nørtoft

Eleftheria Orfanou

Theodoros Papadopoulos

Eleonore Pape

Nicolas Pastor

Kateřina Pechancová

Sanni Peltola

Björn Reichhardt

Matthäus Rest

Maïté Rivollat

Piotr Rozwalak

Zarintaj Rustamova

Elina Salmela

Ashley Nicole Scott

Madina Seidualy

Thomas Lesley Sitter

Eirini Skourtanioti

Tereza Slančíková

Luise Tiemann

Akari Tsukamoto

Vanessa Villalba

John Pelham Walden

Ke Wang

Hui Xin Wong

Wipada Woravatin

Heeseung Yeum

Denisa Zlámalová

Sanni Översti
Alumni/Alumnae of the Department for Archaeogenetics
2018-2021 | Dr. He Yu | Postdoctoral Researcher; now Assistant Professor at Peking University, China |
2017-2021 | Dr. Zandra S. Fagernäs | Ph.D. Student; now Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
2016-2022 | Dr. Ron Hübler | Ph.D. Student |
2016-2022 | Dr. Cody E. Parker | Ph.D. Student |
2015-2020 | Prof. Cosimo Posth | Ph.D. Student, Post-doc, Group Leader; now Junior Professor of Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen |
2015-2020 | Dr. Marieke van de Loosdrecht | Ph.D. Student; now Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands |
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 | Ph.D, 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