Julia van Beesel
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Department of Human Origins
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
e-mail:
julia_van_beesel@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research interests
Collaborative projects
Career and Education
Publications
Current job title
Postdoctoral Researcher at KU Leuven, DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow
Research interests
My research interests focus on the form-function relationship and its impact on evolution. My focus lies on enhancing our understanding shoulder evolution in hominoids and specifically in hominins. I aim to develop a toolkit that facilitates functional interpretations based on hominin fossil remains.
Collaborative projects
I am currently working on a collaborative project together with TU Delft and the MPI EVA (Philipp Gunz) to create a workflow that streamlines and facilitates the development of new specimen-specific musculoskeletal models. We aim to use the finalized workflow to create musculoskeletal models based on hominin fossil remains.
Career and Education
| 03/2023-03/2025 | Postdoctoral researcher and Walter Benjamin Fellow at KU Lven |
| 07/2022-03/2023 | Postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft |
| 07/2022 | Ph.D. degree at University Leipzig |
| 09/2017-07/2022 | Doctoral researcher at MPI EVA |
| 08/2016 | M.Sc. Friedrich-Schiller University Jena |
| 09/2013 | B.Sc. Friedrich-Schiller University Jena |