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
Sarah Defant
Anja Furtwängler
Joscha Gretzinger
Alexander Hübner
Iseult Jackson
Margaux Lefebvre
Sandra Ellen Penske
Adam Ben Rohrlach
Maria Spyrou
Alexander Stoessel
Doctoral Students
Beatriz Amorim
Ivany Jocelyne Argueta Mejia
Judith Ballesteros Villascán
Aparajita Bhattacharya
Ruth Boersma
Alina Naomi Hiß
Xiaowen Jia
Florence Pautet
Jae Rodriguez
Nada Salem
Eleni Seferidou
Anthi Tiliakou
Luca Traverso
Teresa Zeibig
Technical Staff
Raffaela Bianco
Ana Maria de Melo Moreira Gomes
Giuliana Eboli Sotorilli
Diana Iraíz Hernández Zaragoza
Rita Radzeviciute
Antonia Walter
Antje Wissgott
Student Assistants
Amanuel Zeru Belay
Tejaswinee Devi Budoo
Trija Chowdhury
Charlotte Lindörfer
Marc Moiseew
Associated Researchers and Guests
Maxime Borry
Marina Bretos
Jordi Carbó Tenor
Somnath Rajendra Chindhe
Lorenza Coppola Bove
Joaquin del Rio
Michal Feldman
Tiago Ferraz
Laura Flore
Ayshin Ghalichi
Karen Giffin
Taylor Hermes
Percy Hei Chun Ho
Lei Huang
Yilei Huang
Edward Ciaoyang Huang
Pavlína Ingrová
Jiaqi Jin
Annemarie Kaiser
Büşra Katircioglu
Donghee Kim
Casey Kirkpatrick
Arthur Kocher
Lucie Krausová
Denise Kühnert
Hellen Mager
Megan Michel
Priyanka Mondal
Reed Morgan
Mikkel Nørtoft
Eleftheria Orfanou
Luka Papac
Theodoros Papadopoulos
Eleonore Pape
Nicolas Pastor
Kateřina Pechancová
Sanni Peltola
Federica Pierini
Emilia-Joëlle Reinke
Maïté Rivollat
Hélène Rougier
Piotr Rozwalak
Zarintaj Rustamova
Elina Salmela
Ashley Nicole Scott
Madina Seidualy
Annika Julie Simm
Thomas Lesley Sitter
Eirini Skourtanioti
Tereza Slančíková
Luise Tiemann
Tsenka Radoslavova Tsanova
Akari Tsukamoto
Laura Verdesca
Vanessa Villalba
John Pelham Walden
Hui Xin Wong
Wipada Woravatin
Jiaming Xue
Heeseung Yeum
Denisa Zlámalová
Sanni Översti
Yusuf Can Özdemir
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