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
Research Interests
- Structure and Function of the hominoid shoulder
- Evolutionary history of early Australopithecus
- Virtual anthropology and geometric morphometrics
Education
2011 | Ph.D. Stanford University, Department of Biology Anatomy of the Australopithecus scapula and evolution of the human shoulder: insights from a new fossil specimen, KSD-VP-1/1 |
2005 | B.A. Case Western Reserve University, Department of Anthropology Enamel microstructure and crown formation time in the platyrrhine Alouatta palliata |
Academic Positions
2013 - present | Postdoctoral fellow, |
2012 - 2013 | Visiting Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Anthropology |
2012 | Lecturer, California Institute of Technology, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences |
2011 | Lecturer, Stanford University, Department of Anthropology |
Fieldwork
Woranso-Mille Paleontological Research Project (Afar, Ethiopia) | |
2019 - present | co-PI with Yohannes Haile-Selassie |
2006 - present | project member |
Paleoanthropological Survey of the Gobaad Basin, Djibouti | |
2007 | project member, led by David DeGusta and Sonia Harmand |
Geological and Paleontological Exploration of the Southern Weyto Basin, Ethiopia | |
2005, 2007 | project member, led by David DeGusta |
Gona Project (Afar, Ethiopia) | |
2006 | student participant, led by Sileshi Semaw |
Service
Departmental and Institutional Service | |
2018 - present | Institute Seminar committee |
2016 - present | Library acquisitions consultant |
2018 | Departmental review committee |
Reviewer
- Journal of Human Evolution
- Journal of Anatomy
- Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series (Springer)
- Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health
Professional Memberships
- European Society for the Study of Human Evolution
- American Association of Physical Anthropologists
- African Rift Valley Research Consortium
PhD Supervision
2017 - present | Julia van Beesel Exploring the functional morphology of the ape shoulder through musculoskeletal modeling |
Teaching
International Max Planck Research School | |
2013 | Human Paleontology |
University of California, Santa Cruz | |
2013 | Introduction to Human Evolution |
2013 | Human Adaptability |
2013 | History and Theory of Physical Anthropology |
2012 | Human Skeletal Biology (osteology lab course) |
2012 | Human Evolution, upper division (with lab component) |
California Institute of Technology | |
2012 | Primate Behavior |
2012 | Introduction to Human Evolution |
Stanford University | |
2011 | Introduction to Biological Anthropology |
Teaching Assistantships | |
2010 | Human Origins |
2009 | Faunal Analysis |
2008 | Field Seminar in Paleoanthropology |
2007 | Ecology |
2006 | Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology |
2005 | Evolution |