Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture

Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 315
fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 333

Curriculum Vitae

2019 to present	Senior Scientist / ERC Research Group Leader Department of Human Behaviour, Ecology and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany
2015 to 2019	Research Group Leader: Gene-culture Coevolution Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution & Department of Archaeogenetics Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Jena, Germany
2013 to 2015	Postdoctoral Research Associate Palaeogenetics Group, Institute of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
2010 to 2012	Postdoctoral Research Associate UCL Genetics Institute, University College London (UCL), UK
2006 to 2010	PhD in Population genetics “Demography and the evolution of genetic and cultural variation” Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment (GEE), University College London (UCL), London, UK
1999 to 2003	BSc in Mathematics (Honours) University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

2018	Waves of history in the South Pacific: A gene-culture coevolutionary approach. European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (758967), PI, €1,500,000
2018	INTERACT: Human interactions during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Western Europe: The dual perspectives of cultural and biological exchanges. ANR-DFG, PIs Marie-France Deguilloux & Dr Wolfgang Haak, co-investigator, €671,562
2018	Waves of Change: Human migration and adaptation in prehistoric Indonesia. Marsden Fund, New Zealand (18-UOO-135), PI Dr Rebecca Kinaston, associate investigator, NZD 300,000
2018	Em busca de pegadas invisíveis: para um modelo multidisciplinar de difusão das línguas Khoe-Kwadi e do pastoralismo na África Austral. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (29273), PI Jorge Rocha, co-investigator, €237,464
2010	1^st prize award, Postgraduate Symposium, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, UCL
2006	4-year PhD studentship, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, UCL