Curriculum Vitae
Academic Background
| 2009 | Habilitation, Paleoanthropology. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. |
| 2001 | Ph. D. in Anthropology, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School and New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology |
| 1998 | M.A. in Anthropology, Hunter College, CUNY |
| 1994 | B.A. in Anthropology (Summa Cum Laude), Columbia College, Columbia University |
Academic Positions
Primary academic appointments
Current | W3 Professor of Paleoanthropology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
2004-2009 | Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
2001-2004 | Assistant Professor, New York University |
2000 | Adjunct Lecturer, Lehman College, CUNY |
1997 | Adjunct Lecturer, Lehman College, CUNY |
1995-1997 | Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College, CUNY |
Secondary academic appointments
| 2020 | Professor II, SapienCE, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen |
| 2009 - | Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate School |
| 2005 - 2009 | Adjunct Assoc. Professor, Department of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate School |
Administrative and scientific management
| 2020 | Director, Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie |
| 2015 - | Co-Director, DFG Center for Advanced Studies ´Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Tracking linguistic, cultural and biological trajectories of the human past` |
| 2009 - 2020 | Vice-Director, Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie |
| 2017- 2018 | Speaker, Research Area ‘Human Adaptation, Bio-cultural Diversity and Ecology’, Senckenberg Museum and Research Institute |
| 2012 - 2017 | Vice Speaker, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment, University of Tübingen |
| 2010 - 2011 | Director, Institute for Early and Pre-History and Archaeology of the Middle Ages, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen |
| 2009 - | Sprechergremium, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen |
Awards and distinctions
| 2019 | Top discoveries of the year The Guardian, Discover Magazine, LiveScience |
| 2014 | State research award (Landesforschungspreis) Baden-Württemberg, basic research (€100.000,00) |
| 2010 | Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (link) |
| 2009 | Hellenes abroad award - Woman of the year 2009, Europe |
| 2007 | TIME Magazine top ten scientific discoveries of 2007 (link) |
| 2006 | Presentation Prize, 150 Years of Neanderthal Conference |
| 2000-2001 | City University of New York Dissertation Year Fellowship. |
| 1998-2000 | American Museum of Natural History Doctoral Fellowship. |
| 1997-1999 | Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Doctoral Fellowship. |
| 1998 | E. A. Hooton Student Prize, American Association of Physical Anthropologists |
| 1994-1997 | Research Fellowship, City University of New York / NYCEP |
| 1993 | Stigler Fund Award, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University. |
| 1993 | ΦBK, Rabi Scholar’s Society, Columbia University. |
Recent external grants
| 2018 - 2020 | German Research Foundation (DFG) (EL 923; co-PI, PI: El Zaatari) Nutrition and physiological stress among paleolithic children |
| 2017-2021 | ERC Consolidator Grant (PI) ‘Human Evolution at the Crossroads’ (ERC CoG 724703; CROSSROADS) |
| 2015-2023 | DFG Centre for Advanced Studies (FOR 2237; PIs: Harvati and Jäger) ‘Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Tracking Linguistic, Cultural and Biological Trajectories of the Human Past’ |
| 2012-2016 | ERC Starting Grant (PI) ‘Paleoanthropology at the Gates of Europe’ (ERC StG 283503; PaGE) |
| 2016 | DFG Research Grant (PI; with J. Wahl) Paleolithic trauma patterns: differences between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans’ (HA 5258, PI) |
| 2010 | DFG Major Instrumentation Grant (INST 37/706-1 FUGG; PI) 'High Resolution Microfocus/Nanofocus CT system' |
Selected invited lectures
| 2020 | Schwarzbach-Kolloquium annual lecture, University of Cologne |
| 2020 | NYCEP seminar, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York City |
| 2020 | Salk Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropology, ‘Exploring the Origins of Today’s Humans’ symposium, La Jolla |
| 2020 | 6th UCL Lecture on Climate and Human History, University College London |
| 2019 | Distinguished Lecture, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena |
| 2018 | Eugène Dubois Public Lectures, Maastricht University |
| 2018 | Yale Department of Anthropology Guest Seminar, Yale University |
| 2017 | Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin ‘New Perspectives in Human Evolution’ |
| 2017 | Athens Science Festival |
| 2016 | Wenner-Gren Symposium ‚Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene’, Sintra, Portugal |
| 2015 | German Academy of Sciences ‚Leopoldina’ and Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. ‚Aktuelle Befunde der Paläoanthropologie’ |
| 2015 | Akropolis Museum, ‘Face to Face with the Past’, Athens |
| 2014 | Göttingen Academy of Sciences |
| 2014 | STARMUS Science Festival, Tenerife |
| 2014 | Euroscience Open Forum, Ancient Genomics, Nature Publishing Group, Copenhagen |
| 2014 | Keynote speaker, ‘From Fossils to the Genome: 150th anniversary of the naming of Homo neanderthalensis by William King’, Galway |
| 2014 | Munro Lecturer, University of Edinburgh |
| 2013 | Keynote speaker, XXth Congress of the Italian Anthropological Association, Ferrara |
| 2012 | Falling Walls Circle, Falling Walls Foundation, Berlin |
| 2012 | American Museum of Natural History, New York |
| 2012 | 30th Anniversary Lecture Series, Institute of Human Origins, Univ. of Arizona |
| 2011 | 2nd International UNESCO Conference on Great Human Migrations: From Asia to America. Columbia University, New York |
| 2011 | Plenary Speaker, 9th. Intern. Congress of the German Society for Anthropology, Schlesswig |
| 2009 | Director’s Lecture Series, American School of Classical Studies at Athens |
| 2008 | Institute of Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg |
| 2008 | Wenner-Gren Foundation International Symposium ‘Human Evolution’, Stockholm |
| 2007 | Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, 13th National Academy of Sciences USA – Humboldt Foundation, San Diego |