Department of Human Evolution

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 350
fax: +49 (0341) 3550 - 399

Curriculum Vitae

2004-2010	PhD Palaeolithic Zooarchaeology, University College London, UK Dissertation: A contextual approach to the study of faunal remains from Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites in Britain. Supervisors: Dr Louise Martin and Mark Roberts (University College London). Examiners: Prof. Clive Gamble (University of Southampton); Prof. Thijs van Kolfschoten (University of Leiden).
2002-2003	MSc Human Palaeoecology (distinction) University College London, UK
1999-2002	BSc Archaeology (upper second class honours) University College London, UK

Sept 2017-ongoing	Post-Doctoral researcher (Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig, Germany) Post-Doctoral researcher recording, analysing and interpreting the faunal assemblages from the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites of Ranis (Germany) and Bacho Kiro (Bulgaria).
March 2016-Aug 2017	DAAD Post-Doctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience fellow Project: Key transitions in hominin subsistence behaviour: A zooarchaeological comparison of subsistence behaviour in the Eurasian Lower/Middle Palaeolithic and African Early/Middle Stone Age Collaborators: Dr Teresa Steele (UC Davis); Prof. Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser (University of Mainz).
Oct 2015-Feb 2016	Parental leave
June 2015-ongoing	Visiting professor (Lanzhou University, China)
Feb 2012-Feb 2015	Post-Doctoral researcher (MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre) Project: Neumark Nord 2 (Germany): Exploring an Eemian Interglacial Landscape. PI: Prof. Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser (MONREPOS) & Prof. Wil Roebroeks (University of Leiden)

2015	DAAD PRIME 18-month postdoctoral fellowship € 80,000
2014	University of Nevada Scholarship for Society for American Archaeology Conference USA. $1,600
2014	DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Conference Award to present in Greece €1,000
2013	The Prehistoric Society Research Fund (UK) for fieldwork at Oosthoven (Belgium) £400
2013	Society of Antiquaries (London) Funding for fieldwork at Oosthoven (Belgium) £2,700
2011	Quaternary Research Fund (Quaternary Research Association) for La Cotte de St Brelade £500

2017-2019

Elected Regular Board Member: European Society for Study of Human Evolution (ESHE)

Reviewer for
- Journal of Human Evolution
- Journal of Archaeological Science
- Quaternary International
- Quartär
- British Archaeological Reports
- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (Springer)
- Environmental Archaeology: the Journal of Human Palaeoecology
- Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (PIA)
- Environmental Science and Paleobiology (Springer)
Member of
- the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE)
- the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ)