Meeting StEvE 2026

Meeting StEvE is the annual symposium of Students in Ecology and Evolution in Tübingen. It offers an excellent opportunity for PhD students of the EVEREST graduate school to present and discuss their work with fellow students and all EVEREST faculty. Advanced MSc students and early-stage post-doctoral students from EVEREST member groups are also welcome to present their work.

This year's Meeting StEvE will take place on Thursday, December 10, 2026. It will have sessions of oral presentations and a poster session by EVEREST PhD students, followed by the keynote Hilgendorf Lecture. A detailed program will be provided to all registered participants and on this website as of early November 2026.

WHEN?
THU 10 Dec 2026,
09.00 - 19.00 + dinner

WHERE?
Alte Aula Tübingen,
Münzgasse 30, 72070 TÜ

Registration
start: 10 Sep 2026
end: 10 Oct 2026
registration page (t.b.a)

Keynote lecture

This year's speaker in the Hilgendorf Lecture will be Ass. Prof. Antonio Profico, palaeoanthropologist and morphometrician interested in Human Evolution and Virtual Anthropology. His research focuses on the links among skeletal morphology, function, and evolution. After receiving a PhD from Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) (2016), he worked for three years at the same University as a postdoctoral fellow studying the Neanderthal skeleton of Altamura (2016-19). His research projects have received funding from the European Union and national programs, and he has been a research fellow at the University of York (UK) (2019-21), University of Tübingen (Germany) (2021-22), and Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (Tarragona, Spain) (2022).

Registration and Abstract submission

Attendance of the meeting is free of charge and open to all interested students (any level) and faculty, including those not directly affiliated with the EVEREST grad school. All participants (contributors and attendees) need to register no later than 10 October 2026 through the Meeting registration form (t.b.a.). Here, contributors of poster and oral presentations also submit their Abstract, including contribution Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s), and Abstract (150 words maximum).

Oral and poster presentation formats

Oral contributions are 15 minutes, followed by a 5 min discussion. Projections will be from a Windows PC. The presentation should be provided before the meeting as PowerPoint (.pptx) or PDF files — we prefer the latter to avoid compatibility problems. Posters are vertical with A0 dimensions (1189 mm x 841 mm). There will be a dedicated poster session with snacks and drinks.

Meeting announcement poster

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Meeting Dinner

Attendants are invited to join for our informal meeting dinner in [place t.b.a.] (one drink and food included), starting after the Hilgendorf lecture.

Your Meeting StEvE hosts

This year's StEvE meeting is organized by the PhD students and scientists in the Paleoanthropology Working Group.

Please address questions on Meeting StEvE 2026 to Gabriele Russo.