| PhD Student | PhD Completed | Thesis Title & Publishing University |
| Dorothea Maria Bosch | 2018 | Molluscs in the Levantine Upper Palaeolithic: implications for modern human diets and subsistence behaviour
University of Leiden |
| Zewdi Tsegai | 2018 | Systemic and functional patterns of human and chimpanzee internal bone structure: a regional, systemic and ontogenetic approach
University of Leipzig |
| Nicolas Stephens | 2018 | Functional morphology of the hand: detecting behavior during life through variation in internal trabecular architecture
University of Leipzig |
| Stefanie Stelzer | 2018 | Dental arcade shape variation in hominin evolution
University of Leipzig |
| Will Archer | 2017 | What is Still Bay? Human behavioural variability and biogeography reflected in southern African Middle Stone Age bifacial points.
University of Leiden |
| Colin Moore | 2016 | "Premolar root and canal variation in extant hominoids and South African fossil hominins"
University of Leipzig |
| Melanie Bäuchle | 2015 | Analyses of mandibular molar root sizes and mandibular size in extant and fossil hominids
Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Universität, Frankfurt am Main |
| Geraldine Fahy | 2014 | Dietary stable isotope analysis of chimpanzee dietary ecology and the implications for understanding the evolution of hominin diets
Faculty for Biology, Pharmacy and Psychology; University of Leipzig |
| Anja Guhl | 2014 | Addressing the challenges of dating archaeological sites: A luminescence assessment of sediments at Jonzac, southwest France
Faculty for Biology, Pharmacy and Psychology; University of Leipzig |
| Adeline Le Cabec | 2013 | Anterior dental loading and root morphology in Neanderthals
Faculty for Biology, Pharmacy and Psychology; University of Leipzig |
| Sarah Freidline | 2012 | Allometry and Evolution of the Face in Archaic Homo
City University of New York |
| Viktoria Oelze | 2012 | Isotopic evidence of mobility in the early Bronze and early Iron Age in Southern Germany
University of Leiden Pushing frontiers in great ape isotope ecology University of Leipzig |
| Domingo Carlos Salazar Garcia | 2012 | Palaeodietary studies of prehistoric Spanish populations / Span. Orig.title: Isótopos, dieta y movilidad en el País Valenciano. Aplicación a restos humanos del Paleolítico Medio al Neolítico Final
University of Valencia |
| Sahra Talamo | 2012 | Radiocarbon dating at the transition between the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in Europe
Faculty for Biology, Pharmacy and Psychology; University of Leipzig |
| Nicolas Zwyns | 2012 | Laminar technology and the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in the Altai, Siberia
University of Leiden |
| Morgan Roussel | 2011 | Norms and variation within the lithic industry during the Chatelperronian
University of Paris X - Nanterre |
| Friederike Kachel | 2011 | The Evolution of human life history – insights from an agent-based modeling perspective
Faculty for Biology, Pharmacy and Psychology; University of Leipzig |
| Kate Britton | 2010 | Multi-isotope Analysis and the Reconstruction of Prey Species Palaeomigrations and Palaeoecology
Department of Archaeology; Durham University |
| Yi Guo | 2010 | Cultural variation in Neolithic middle China: The evidence from isotopic analysis
Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Simon Neubauer | 2010 | Human brain development and evolution: a comparative study of ontogenetic endocranial shape changes using geometric morphometrics
Faculty for Biology, Pharmacy and Psychology; University of Leipzig |
| Nandini Singh | 2010 | Morphological evolution through integration: quantitative analysis of cranio-mandibular covariance structures in extant hominids
University of Tübingen |
| Kyoungcheol Choy | 2009 | Sulphur Isotope Analysis of Archaeological Tissues : A new method for reconstructing past human and animal diet and mobility
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Reconstruction of dietary adaptations in Korean prehistory using stable isotope analyses of bone collagen from archaeological sites
Faculty for Biology, Pharmacy and Psychology; University of Leipzig |
| Robin Feeney | 2009 | Sexual Dimorphism in Human Enamel and Dentine: Evolutionary Implications and Forensic Applications
Department of Anthropology; Ohio State University |
| Olaf Nehlich | 2009 | Sulphur Isotope Analysis of Archaeological Tissues: A new method for reconstructing past human and animal diet and mobility
Faculty for Biology, Pharmacy and Psychology; University of Leipzig |
| Philip Nigst | 2009 | The Early Upper Palaeolithic in the Middle Danube region: A regional study using evidence from Willendorf II, Stratzing 94, Vedrovice V, and Stránká skálá III
Faculty of History, Art and Asian Studies; University of Leipzig |
| Maximilian Von Harling | 2009 | Zur Variabilität phylogenetisch relevanter morphologischer Merkmale des Schädelinneren beim heutigen Menschen – Ein Beitrag zur Evolution des Menschen
Department of Human Biology; University of Hamburg |
| Matthew Skinner | 2008 | Interpreting morphological variability in hominoid dental phenotypes from an ontogenetic perspective
Dept. of Anthropology; The George Washington University |
Max-Planck-Institut