Max-Planck-Institut
Contact
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
e-mail: streiber@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Curriculum Vitae
Downloadable CV
Personal Information
| Born: | November 30, 1953 |
| Citizenship: | French |
| Personal status: | Married, two children |
Education and Degrees
| 1991 | State Doctorate (Habilitation) in Anthropology, University of Bordeaux I |
| 1978 | 3rd Cycle Doctorate, Vertebrate Paleontology and Human Paleontology, University of Paris VI |
| 1976 | M.A. of Vertebrate Paleontology and Human Paleontology, University of Paris VI |
| 1975 | B.A. of Geology, University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie) |
Academic Appointments
Primary Academic Appointments
| Current: | Professor of Anthropology (Max-Planck Institute for EvolutionaryAnthropology) |
Previous
| 2000-2003 | Professor of Anthropology (University of Bordeaux, France) |
| 1993-2000 | Director of Research (French National Center for Scientific Research) |
| 1985-1993 | Senior Researcher (CNRS) |
| 1981-1985 | Junior Researcher (CNRS) |
| 1980-1981 | Research contract (CNRS) |
| 1976-1978 | Research contract with DGRST (French Ministry of Education and Research) |
Affiliations
| Current: | Department of Human Evolution, Max-Planck Institute for EvolutionaryAnthropology, Leipzig |
Previous
| 2000-2003 | UMR 5809 of CNRS “Anthropology of Ancient Populations” (University of Bordeaux) |
| 1998-2000 | EP1781/UPR2147 of CNRS “Dynamics of Human Evolution” (Paris) |
| 1995-1997 | UMR 152 of CNRS “Laboratory of Biological Anthropology” (Paris) |
| 1981-1994 | URA 49 of CNRS “Center of Anthropological Research of the Musée de l'Homme” (Paris) |
Secondary Academic Appointments
| Current: | Honorary Professor, University of Leipzig (since 2006) Part-time Professor, Leiden University (since 2010) International Chair of Palaeoanthropology, Collège du France, Paris (since 2016) |
Previous
| 1996-1998 | Associated Researcher at the Museum of Man (San Diego) (since 1996) |
| 1992-1996 | Associated researcher to UMR 5809 du CNRS "Anthropology of Ancient Populations" |
| 1992-1996 | Research Group of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris "Morphometry and Shape Analysis" |
| 1989-1996 | Research Project GDR 890 of CNRS "Biology, Society and Culture" |
Visiting Professorships
| Current: | Invited Professor, Collège de France (Since 2014) |
Previous
| 2011 | Visiting Professor, Dept. of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University |
| 1999 | Visiting Professor, Dept. of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University |
| 1997 | Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University |
| 1981-1994 | Visiting Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley |
Administrative and Scientific Management
| Main Current: | Director of the Department of Human Evolution, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig |
Secondary or Previous
| Since 2013 | Co-Director of the Max Planck-Weizmann Joint Center in the Field of Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology |
| Since 2009 | Assemblée de l’Institut Pasteur (‘Assemblée des Cent’) |
| 2012-2013 | Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2006-2007 | Managing Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig |
| 2001-2005 | Scientific Committee for the Near East, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 2000-2004 | Committee of the program OHLL (CNRS) |
| 2000-2004 | Director of the project "Production and Perception of the language in Neanderthals" (Program OHLL) |
| 2002-2003 | Deputy Director for Prehistoric Archeology, Biological Anthropology and Paleoenvironmental Sciences at the Direction of CNRS |
| 2002-2003 | Scientific Committee of the “International Pole of Prehistory” of Aquitanian region |
| 2000-2003 | Committee of the program ECLIPSE (CNRS |
| 1999-2003 | Director of GDR2152 (CNRS) "Fossil hominids: from virtual imaging to 3D morphometry" |
| 2001-2002 | Member of the Scientific Council for Social and Human Sciences of CNRS |
| 1998-2000 | Director of the research team “Dynamics of Human Evolution” of CNRS (EP1781 and UPR2147 of CNRS, Paris) |
| 1995-2000 | Member of the Archaeological Committee of CNRS |
| 1991-2000 | Elected Member of the French National Committee of Scientific Research |
| 1995-1997 | Co-Director of the CNRS research team "Laboratory of Biological Anthropology" (UMR 152 of CNRS, Paris) |
| 1994-1996 | Member of the Administration Committee of the National Museum of Natural History (Paris) |
| 1994 | Deputy Director of the CNRS research team "Center of Anthropological Research of the Musée de l’Homme” (URA 49 of CNRS) |
| 1990-1994 | Director of the Archaeological Project of Zafarraya for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
Grant Support
- H. Dibble, J.-J. Hublin, S. McPherron (2009) "Assessing the Faunal and Lithic Assemblages and Chronology of the Smugglers' Cave Site" (NSF #BCS-0935491).
- 2010 ARC Discovery Projects (Co-PI)
- Marie Curie European Research Training Network Grant (EVAN)
- Grants and support from CNRS, Collège de France, French National Museum of Natural History,University of Paris VI, University of Bordeaux 1, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, French Ministry of Research, Leakey Foundation, Fyssen Foundation.
Membership in Scientific Societies
- American Association of Physical Anthropology
- Asociación Española para el Estudio del Cuaternario
- Association Française pour l'Avancement des Scienceso
- 1986-1988 Vice-president of the "Anthropology" section
- 1988-1990 President of "Anthropology" section
- European Anthropological Association
- European Society for the study of Human Evolution
- La Jolla Group for Explaining the Origin of Humans (San Diego, California)
- Société d'Anthropologie de Pariso
- 1990-1995 General Secretary
- Société d'Anthropologie du Sud-Ouest
- Société Française pour l'Histoire des Sciences de l'Homme
- Société Préhistorique Française
Awards and Honours
| 2013 | Rudolf-Virchow Vorlesung, Prinz Maximilian zu Wied-Stiftung, RGZM Main |
| 2011 | Elected President of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution |
| 2009 | The Innolec Lectureship in Anthropology; Awarded by the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. |
| 1990 | Prize F. Millepierre of "Academie Française" for the book :"Boucher de Perthes, lesorigines romantiques de la Préhistoire" |
Archaeological Excavations and Fieldwork
| 2007-2009 | Rhafas Cave, (Mousterian, Morocco), co-directed by A. Bouzouggar & J.-J.Hublin |
| 2004-2011 | Jebel Irhoud, (Mousterian, Morocco), co-directed by A. Ben-Ncer & J.-J. Hublin |
| 2004-2007 | Jonzac, (Mousterian and Upper Palaeolithic, France), co-directed by J. Jaubert & J.-J. Hublin |
| 2005-2006 | Dikika, (Plio-Pleistocene, Ethiopia), directed by Z. Alemseged |
| 1989-1994 | Zafarraya, |
| 1988 | Jebel Irhoud, (Mousterian, Morocco), survey by Hublin, J.-J.& J.P. Raynal. |
| 1984 | Atlantic Morocco, (geological survey of the hominids sites) |
| 1982-1983 | Ternifine, (Acheulean, Algeria), co-directed by Hublin, J.-J.& J.-J. Jaeger |
| 1977 | La Madeleine, (Magdalenian, France), directed by J.M. Bouvie |
| 1975-1977 | Marillac, (Mousterian, France), directed by B. Vandermeersch |
| 1976 | Biache-Saint-Vaast, (Acheulean, France), directed by A. Tuffreau |
| 1975 | Djebel Qafzeh, (Mousterian, Israël), directed by B. Vandermeersch |
| 1974 | La Beaume-Vallée, (Mousterian, France), directed by J.P. Raynal |
| 1971-1972 | Chez Jugie, |
| 1969-1970 | Grotte du Loup, (Chatelperronian and Aurignacian, France), directed by G.Mazière |
Invited Lectures and Seminar
| 2018 | Pediatric Research Symposium, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2018 | Keynote Speech - International Symposium, Collège de France, Paris (France) |
| 2018 | Jebel Irhoud et l’origine d’Homo sapiens, Grands Séminaires du Musée de l'Homme, Paris (France) |
| 2018 | Le premier de notre espèce, Musée de Nemours, Paris (France) |
| 2018 | Conference, University of Geneva, Geneva (Switzerland) |
| 2017 | Young Researchers of the Imagine Institute, 2rd YR21 Congress, Paris (France) |
| 2017 | Dean’s Lecture, University of Leiden, Leiden (the Netherlands) |
| 2017 | Neandertal Si Neandertal No, Academy of Agriculture, Science and Letters, Verona (Italy) |
| 2016 | Colloque de rentrée, Migrations, Réfugiés, Exil, Collège de France, Paris (France) |
| 2016 | Symposium: Evolution of the Human Face, Madrid (Spain) |
| 2016 | Tables Rondes d L’Arbois, Aix en Provence (France) |
| 2016 | 57th DGP Conference, Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2016 | James Arthur Lecture, American Natural History Museum, New York (U.S.A.) |
| 2016 | Modern Origins in the Mediterranean, IMERA, Marseille |
| 2015 | Salzburger Hochschulwoche, Salzburg (Austria) |
| 2015 | Salk Institute, San Diego (USA) |
| 2015 | Académie des Sciences, Paris (France) |
| 2015 | University of Ravenna (Italy) |
| 2015 | University of Bologna (Italy) |
| 2015 | Moroccan Ministery of Culture, Rabat (Morocco) |
| 2015 | Rotary Club Casablanca El Fida, Casablanca (Morocco) |
| 2015 | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2015 | Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) |
| 2015 | National Institute of Archaeology and Museum; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia (Bulgaria) |
| 2015 | Faculteit Archeologie, Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands) |
| 2014 | Labratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université de Lyon 2 (France) |
| 2014 | European Acheulean Conference, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) |
| 2014 | Keynote lecture –3rd Congress of Biomedical Sciences and Methods in Archaeology, Université de Bordeaux I (France) |
| 2014 | Université de Toulouse (France) |
| 2014 | European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Florence (Italy) |
| 2014 | Keynote lecture – 5th meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Vienna (Austria |
| 2014 | Symposium, Royal Society, London(UK) |
| 2014 | Seminar, Namur (Belgium) |
| 2014 | Cell Symposium, Sitges (Spain) |
| 2014 | Conference Series, Universiteit Leiden(The Netherlands) |
| 2013 | Rudolf Virchow Lecture, Neuwied (Germany) |
| 2013 | McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (UK) |
| 2013 | Keynote lecture –RESET meeting at the British Museum, London (UK) |
| 2013 | Field Museum, Chicago (USA) |
| 2013 | Masaryk Univertity Brno (République Tchèque) |
| 2013 | Paleoanthropology Society Meeting Honolulu, (USA) |
| 2013 | School of Paleoanthropology, University of Perugia (Italy) |
| 2012 | 3rd Annual Anthropological Lecture in Memory of Prof. A. Wiercińsky, Warsaw (Poland) |
| 2012 | Keynote Lecture - 18th Congress of the European Anthropological Association, Ankara (Turkey) |
| 2012 | Keynote Lecture - 51st Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology, Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2012 | Collaborative Research Centre, Cologne (Germany) |
| 2012 | EMBL Forum Lectures, Grenoble (France) |
| 2012 | Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur, Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2012 | Houston Museum of Natural Sciences and Leakey Foundation, Houston (USA) |
| 2012 | Human Origins at the Edge of Discovery, ASU Institute of Human Origins, Tempe (USA) |
| 2012 | Kimmel Center, Rehovot (Israel) |
| 2012 | L’Archéologie au laboratoire, Cité des Sciences, La Vilette (France) |
| 2012 | Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence (Italy) |
| 2012 | Zoologisches Kolloquium des Institutes für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Musuem der Friederich-Schiller-Universität, Jena (Germany) |
| 2011 | California Academy of Sciences and Leakey Foundation, San Francisco (USA) |
| 2011 | College de France, Paris (France) |
| 2011 | Institute des Neurosciences, UCL, Brussels (Belgium) |
| 2011 | Morrison Institute Winter Colloquium, Stanford University, California (USA) |
| 2011 | Musée de La Chapelle-aux-Saints (France) |
| 2011 | Siemens, CS Business Conference,Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2011 | Union Scientifique d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux (France) |
| 2011 | University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada) |
| 2011 | University of York, Paleo launch, York (UK) |
| 2010 | Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Barcelona (Spain) |
| 2010 | Conférences de la Vallée de la Couze, Montferrand-du-Périgord (France) |
| 2010 | Die lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2010 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Nürnberg (Germany) |
| 2010 | Institut Pasteur, Paris (France |
| 2010 | International Women’s Club of Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany |
| 2010 | Senckenberg Naturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main (Germany) |
| 2010 | Workshop on Human Uniqueness and Behavioural Modernity, Arizona State University, Tempe (USA) |
| 2009 | Anthropology Colloquium, University of California, Davis (USA) |
| 2009 | Associazione Antropologica Italiana, XVIII Congresso, Firenze (Italy) |
| 2009 | Associazione Antropologica Italiana, XVIII Congresso, Firenze (Italy) |
| 2009 | Dmanisi Symposium, Naturalis –National Museum of Natural History, Leiden (The Netherlands) |
| 2009 | "Human EvoDevo" workshop, KLI, Altenberg |
| 2009 | Innolec lecture at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic) |
| 2009 | Kolloquium zur Ur-und Frühgeschichten Archaelogie, University of Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2009 | Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, Leiden (The Netherlands) |
| 2009 | Stanford Archaeological Center Lecture Series, Stanford University (USA) |
| 2008 | Berliner Ges. F. Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, Berlin (Germany |
| 2008 | Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon (France) |
| 2008 | EvE Colloquium in Evolutionary Ecology, Tübingen (Germany) |
| 2008 | Martin Schwarzbach Kolloquium, Köln (Germany) |
| 2008 | New York University, New York (USA) |
| 2008 | Triple – A Anniversary, Hamburg (Germany |
| 2006 | Cité de Science, Paris (France) |
| 2006 | Frontiers of Science, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf (Germany) |
| 2006 | Geo-Kolloquium, Heidelberg University (Germany) |
| 2006 | Institut für Ur-und Frühgeschichte, Köln University (Germany)2006 IPP (Internationales Promotions Programm) Workshop, University Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2006 | IPP (Internationales Promotions Programm) Workshop, University Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2006 | Musée de l’Homme, Paris (France) |
| 2006 | Paléosite of St. Cesaire (France) |
| 2005 | 4th MPG PhD Student Representatives Meeting, Göttingen (Germany) |
| 2005 | 6th Congress of the Gesellschaft for Antropologie e.V., Munich (Germany) |
| 2005 | Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Jena (Germany) |
| 2005 | Les entretiens de la Préhistoire, St. Césaire (France) |
| 2004 | Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2004 | International University Bremen (Germany) |
| 2004 | Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle (Germany) |
| 2004 | Les Journées de Préhistoire, Saint-Césaire (France) |
| 2004 | Stanford University –Dept. of Anthropology, Palo Alto (USA) |
| 2004 | "The rise and fall of Homo Erectus", UCSD, La Jolla (USA) |
| 2004 | Tulane University, New-Orleans LA (USA) |
| 2004 | University of Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2003 | Duke University, Durham NC (USA) |
| 2003 | Les entretiens de la Préhistoire 2003, Saint-Césaire (France) |
| 2003 | Pole International de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies (France) |
| 2002 | Kunstkamera, St.-Petersburg (Russia) |
| 2002 | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany) |
| 2002 | Museum of Man, San Diego (USA) |
| 2002 | Théatre de la Science, Bordeaux (France) |
| 2001 | Collège de France, Paris (France) |
| 2001 | Paleoanthropology Seminar, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (USA) |
| 2000 | Le Chaînon manquant, University Bordeaux 1 (France) |
| 1999 | Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University (USA) |
| 1999 | Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France) |
| 1999 | Leakey Foundation, San Francisco (USA) |
| 1999 | Scientific Reporters Association, Press Breakfast, Paris (France) |
| 1998 | CCAS, Plourvez-Porzay (France) |
| 1998 | CCAS, Tregunc-Concarneau (France) |
| 1998 | Rotary International Club, Chantilly (France) |
| 1997 | 23ème Annual Meetingof “European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation”,Aix-les-Bains (France) |
| 1997 | Archaeology Wing Lunch series, Harvard University (USA) |
| 1997 | Centre des faibles radioactivités CEA-CNRS, Gif sur Yvette (France) |
| 1997 | Department directors meeting, CNRS, Paris (France) |
| 1997 | Evolutionary Anatomy seminar, University College London (UK) |
| 1997 | Lecture-Luncheons Peabody Museum, Harvard University (USA) |
| 1997 | Société Historique de Compiègne (France) |
| 1996 | Brigham Young University, Provo (USA) |
| 1996 | Dept. of Anthropology, University of Bordeaux (France) |
| 1996 | Montreuil book show, Paris (France) |
| 1996 | Musée d’Aquitaire, Bordeaux (France) |
| 1996 | Museum of Man, San Diego (USA) |
| 1995 | Centre inter-universitaire méditerranéen, Nice (France) |
| 1995 | Dept. of Prehistory, University of Aix-Marseille (France) |
| 1995 | Dept. of Prehistory, University of Lille (France) |
| 1995 | Ecole Doctorale du Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) |
| 1994 | Collège de France, Paris (France) |
| 1994 | Dept. of Anthropology, Cambridge University (UK) |
| 1994 | Dept. of Prehistory, University of Aix-Marseille (France) |
| 1994 | Musée de l’Homme, Paris (France) x 2 |
| 1994 | Seminar of African Prehistory, UPR 311, Paris (France) |
| 1994 | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA) x 2 |
| 1993 | Musée de l’Homme, Paris (France) x 3 |
| 1992 | Centre Culturel Franco-Portugais, Lisbon (Portugal) |
| 1992 | Leakey Foundation, San Francisco (USA) |
| 1992 | Musée de l'Homme, Paris (France) |
| 1992 | University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (USA) |
| 1990 | Centre Culturel Jean Carné, St Michel sur Orge (France) |
| 1990 | Dept. of Anthropology, University of Bordeaux (France) |
| 1990 | Université inter-âges de Versailles (France) |
| 1989 | CIRAS, Amiens (France) |
| 1989 | Collège de France, Paris (France) |
| 1989 | Dept. of Anthropology, Musée de l'Homme, Paris (France) |
| 1989 | DRAC, Châlons-sur-Marne (France) |
| 1989 | IBM managers seminar, Marne-la-Vallée (France) |
| 1989 | National seminar for « Ecoles Normales » teachers Limoges (France) |
| 1988 | Dept. of Prehistory, University of Paris X (France) |
| 1988 | IBM managers seminar, Marne-la-Vallée (France) |
| 1988 | INSAP, Rabat (Morocco) |
| 1988 | Press Conference, Musée de Préhistoire d'Ile de France, Nemours (France) |
| 1988 | Seminar EPHE, Paris (France) |
| 1988 | Société des Amis du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) |
| 1988 | Société Royale Belge d'Anthropologie et de Préhistoire, Brussells (Belgium) |
| 1987 | Collège de France, Paris (France) |
| 1987 | Dept. of Anthropology, University of Bordeaux (France) |
| 1987 | Dept. of Prehistory, University of Paris X (France) |
| 1986 | Centre International d'Etudes Pédagogiques, Sèvres (France) |
| 1986 | Société d'Anthropologie de Paris (France) |
| 1985 | Centre culturel. Boulogne (France) |
| 1985 | Centre culturel J. Renoir Dieppe (France) |
| 1985 | Institut de Sexologie, Paris (France) |
| 1985 | IVPP, Beijing (China) |
| 1984 | Ecole Pratique des hautes études, Montpellier (France) |
| 1984 | Musée de l'Homme, Paris (France) |
Publications
Editorial boards
- Anthropological Science (Tokyo)
- Archaeology Magazine (New York)
- Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris (Paris)
- Dolní Vĕstonice Series, Institute of Archaelogy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Brno)
- Human Evolution (Florence)
- Human Evolution Series, Oxford University Press (Oxford)
- Journal of Human Evolution (London)
- Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte (Tübingen)
- Museum of Comparative Anthropogeny (San Diego)
- Paléo (Les Eyzies)Rivista di Antropologia (Rome)
Public Understanding of Science
Writing of numerous articles and 6 books (some with translations into English, Italian, Spanish and Chinese) for a general audience about Vertebrate and Human Paleontology.
Participation in 5 exhibitions, 3 CDs, and numerous public lectures.
Interviews and participation in many radio and television programs in France, Switzerland, Spain, UK, Canada, USA, and Germany (RTL, Deutschlandfunk, WDR Fernsehen, France Culture, France Inter, Radio France International, TSF, Europe 1, Radio Suisse Romande, BBC-Radio, Radio Canada, CNDP, Delta Image, TF1, A2, FR3, ARTE, M6, La5, LC1, TV5, BBC-Television, Channel Five, NOVA, WQED, Discovery Channel, TVE, BBC Science Radio Unit, Wildfire TV, ZDF, History Channel, Schweizer Radio DRS2, CBC, Crescendo Films)
I try to respond to requests for comments from journalists from the national and international press.
