Paläoanthropologie

Melania Ioannidou

Function: Postdoctoral Researcher/Scientific Coordinator


Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Abt. Paläoanthropologie
Rümelinstr. 23
D-72070 Tübingen

 Room 705, Hauptgebäude DG
melania.ioannidouspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Consulting hours: by arrangement

Academic and Professional Trajectory

2022 - 2025
Postdoctoral Researcher

Paleoanthropology working group, University of Tübingen

2022 - 2025
Scientific Coordinator

ERC-funded project ‘FIRSTSTEPS’, University of Tübingen

2021
Research associate

ERC-funded project ‘Human Evolution at the CrossRoads’, University of Tübingen

2016 - 2021
Ph.D. Archeological Sciences and Human Evolution, University of Tübingen

University of Tübingen

Dissertation: Reevaluation of the Ouranopithecus macedoniensis paradigm, using virtual anthropology and geometric morphometrics

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati and Prof. George Koufos

2016 - 2020
Research assistant

Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment, University of Tübingen

2013 - 2016
M.Sc Scientific Archaeology with specialization in Paleoanthropology, University of Tübingen

Thesis: Virtual reconstruction and comparative analysis of Ouranopithecus macedoniensis, from the late Miocene deposits of Central Macedonia, Greece

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati and Prof. George Koufos

2009 - 2013
B.Sc Geology with specialization in Structural Geology and Stratigraphy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Thesis: Eruption sequence in the dentition of Mesopithecus delsoni/pentelicus from Axios valley (Macedonia, Greece)

Supervisor: Prof. George Koufos

Honors-Awards

2018
Grant from the A.G. Leventis Foundation

For the academic years 2018-2019

2017
Grant from the A.G. Leventis Foundation

For the academic years 2017-2018

2016
Grant from the A.G. Leventis Foundation

For the academic years 2016-2017

2013
Scholarship from DAAD for a Master’s Degree

Two full years

Publications

2021

Ioannidou, M., Koufos, G. D., de Bonis, L., & Harvati, K. (2021). 3D geometric morphometrics analysis of mandibular fragments of Ouranopithecus macedoniensis from the late Miocene deposits of Central Macedonia, Greece. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 177(1), 48-62. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24420

2019

Ioannidou, M., Koufos, G. D., de Bonis, L., & Harvati, K. (2019). A new three‐dimensional geometric morphometrics analysis of the Ouranopithecus macedoniensis cranium (Late Miocene, Central Macedonia, Greece). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 170(2), 295-307. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23900

Ioannidou, M., Falcucci, A., Röding, C., & Kandel, A. W. (2019). Eighth Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 28(2), 52-54. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21770