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Alexandra Schuh

Postdoc

Abteilung für Menschliche Ursprünge
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

Telefon: +49 (0) 341 3550 356
E-Mail: alexandra_schuh@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de

Research Interests

  • Facial evolution
  • Ontogeny
  • Neanderthals
  • Cellular process of bone growth (bone modelling)
  • Genetic underpinning of bone modelling

Curriculum vitae

Career & Education

July 2023-present Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Jan. 2022-June 2023Fyssen postdoctoral fellow, PACEA, UMR 5199, University of Bordeaux, France
May 2016-Nov. 2020Ph.D. candidate, Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2012-2014MA in Biological Anthropology and Prehistory, University of Bordeaux, France
2009-2012BA in Cellular Biology and Physiology
2009-2011: University of Strasbourg, France
2011-2012: International exchange with the University of Montreal, Canada

Research experience

Skills
3D ImagingSoftware: Geomagic, Viewbox, Avizo, Landmark app.
Equipment: MicroScribe, NextEngine, Arctec Space Spider, Diondo d3 high-resolution micro-CT
Geometric morphometricsSoftware: RStudio, MorphoJ
Bone surface histologySoftware: ImageJ
Equipment:SmartZoom 5 digital microscope; Nanofocus confocal microscope
Complementary trainings
Mai-June 2020Bone histology – virtual sessions
Supervisor: Miszkiewicz J.
May 2017 Advanced R programming
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Supervisor: Stephens C.
May 2016 Advanced data visualisation with R
 University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
  Supervisor: Neumann C.
March 2016 1. Non-human primate behaviour and anatomy, human evolution
2. Non-human primates and humans from today: interactions and conservation 

National Museum of Natural history, Paris, France
Supervisors: Krief S., Maille A.
April 2015Morphometry and forms analysis
National Museum of Natural history, Paris, France
Supervisor: Baylac M.
March/April 2013Analyses and methods in Palaeoanthropology
National Museum of Natural history, Paris, France
Supervisors: Balzeau A., Détroit F., Friess M.
Sept.-Dec. 2011  Histological analysis of facial nerves in foetal opossums
University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Supervisor: Pflieger J.F.
Internships
May 2015Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Title: Bone modeling of the facial skeleton in mice
Supervisors: Freidline S., Kupczik K.
July 2013Leverhulme Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge, UK
Title: The use of geometric morphometrics in human evolution
Supervisors: Mounier A., Mirazón-Lahr M.
Mai 2012National Museum of Natural history, Paris, France
Title: Study of the inner ear of the la Chapelle-aux-Saints Neanderthal
Supervisor: Balzeau A.
Fieldwork
June 2015Grotte de Sirogne, Rocamadour, France. Middle Palaeolithic. Dir.: P. Bayle
July 2014 La Colline du Château, Nice, France. Middle Age. Dir. : A. Civetta
June 2013La Caune de l'Arago, Tautavel, France. Middle Palaeolithic. Dir.: A.-m. Moigne
Amelestoy, Pyrénées Atlantiques, France. Bronze Age. Dir.: P. Courtaud

Research awards & funding

2023FACCTS program – 25 000 $
Evolution of the human skull: exploring gracilization and
robusticity of the lower jaw in humans and chimpanzees
2022 Grand Projet de Recherche HUMAN PAST – 5755 €
Département des Sciences Archéologiques – 2050 €
Developmental integration between the face and the basicranium: a cellular perspective (DevCel)
2021Fyssen Foundation – 63090 €
Postdoctoral project
2016 Poster prize, 1841st Annual meetings of the Anthropological Society of Paris, Lyon, France

Languages

  • French – native language
  • English – fluent
  • German – basics

Projects & Partners 

  • Facial Expressions: decoding primate skull development
    P. Gunz, G. Housman
  • Evolution of the human skull: exploring gracilization and robusticity of the lower jaw in humans and chimpanzees
    S. Freidline, Z. Tsegai, S. Natahi
  • DevCel
    Y. Heuze

Publications

2024

Lequin, M., Colard, T., Colombo, A., Heuzé, Y., Le Cabec, A., Remy, F., & Schuh, A. (2024). Quelle place pour la biologie du développement dans la paléoanthropologie? Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris BMSAP, 36(Suppl).
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Schuh, A., Heuzé, Y., Gunz, P., Berthaume, M. A., Shaw, C. N., Hublin, J.-J., & Freidline, S. E. (2024). A shared pattern of midfacial bone modelling in hominids suggests deep evolutionary roots for human facial morphogenesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291.
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2023

Gicqueau, A., Schuh, A., Henrion, J., Viola, B., Partiot, C., Guillon, M., Golovanova, L., Doronichev, V., Gunz, P., Hublin, J.-J., & Maureille, B. (2023). Anatomically modern human in the Châtelperronian hominin collection from the Grotte du Renne (Arcy-sur-Cure, Northeast France). Scientific Reports, 13(1): 12682.
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2021

Schuh, A. (2021). Quantification of maxillary ontogenetic processes using surface histology and geometric morphometrics. PhD Thesis, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig.
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Schuh, A., Kupczik, K., Gunz, P., Hublin, J.-J., & Freidline, S. E. (2021). Quantifying maxillary development in chimpanzees and humans: an analysis of prognathism and orthognathism at the morphological and microscopic scales. Journal of Human Evolution, 157: 103031.
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2020

Schuh, A., Gunz, P., Villa, C., Kupczik, K., Hublin, J.-J., & Freidline, S. E. (2020). Intraspecific variability in human maxillary bone modeling patterns during ontogeny. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 137, 655-670.
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2019

Schuh, A., Kupczik, K., Gunz, P., Hublin, J.-J., & Freidline, S. E. (2019). Ontogeny of the human maxilla: A study of intra-population variability combining surface bone histology and geometric morphometrics. Journal of Anatomy, 235(2), 233-245.
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2018

Schuh, A., & Freidline-Stimman, S. (2018). Bone modeling patterns in the midface of modern humans during ontogeny: A study of intraspecific variability. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 165(S66), 245-246.
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2017

Schuh, A., Dutailly, B., Coutinho Nogueira, D., Santos, F., Arensburg, B., Vandermeersch, B., Coqueugniot, H., & Tillier, A.-M. (2017). La mandibule de l’adulte Qafzeh 25 (Paléolithique moyen, Basse Galilée). Reconstruction virtuelle 3D et analyse morphométrique. Paleorient, 43(1), 49-59.
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Schuh, A., Kupczik, K., & Freidline, S. E. (2017). Ontogeny of the midface in Homo sapiens. In Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (PESHE) (6, pp. 173).
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2016

Schuh, A., Dutailly, B., Coqueugniot, H., Santos, F., Coutinho Nogueira, D., Arensburg, B., Vandermeersch, B., & Tillier, A.-M. (2016). La mandibule de l’adulte Qafzeh 25 (Paléolithique moyen, Basse Galilée) et sa reconstruction virtuelle 3D. Implications anthropologiques. Poster presented at 1841e journées de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, Lyon.
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