Paläoanthropologie

Deborah Galeone

Function: PhD student


Universität Tübingen
Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Abt. Paläoanthropologie
Rümelinstr. 23
72070 Tübingen
Germany


 Room 425
deborah.galeone@uni-tuebingen.de


Consulting hours:
by arrangement
 

About

Deborah Galeone is a PhD student in the Palaeoanthropology section at the University of Tübingen. After completing her Bachelor's degree in Animal Management and Welfare, she moved to Turin to attend a Master's Degree in Evolution of Animal and Human Behaviour. Her MSc thesis focused on the vocal communication of wild orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii), for which she spent several months in Borneo collecting data.
From 2021, she worked in Gabon for the Loango Gorilla Project, first as a research assistant and later as the assistant project manager. There, she focused on collecting behavioural and ecological data of wild lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), on gorillas’ habituation, as well as on data, staff, and camp management.
She returned to Europe to be part of the research group “Pathways to Language” which aims to provide insights into human language evolution and plasticity through the comparative study of communication over joint actions in great apes. The goal of her PhD project is to assess the individual variation and plasticity in communicative interactions of wild and zoo-housed orang-utans.

Academic and professional trajectory

2023
PhD candidate, University of Tübingen

Supervisor: Marlen Fröhlich
AG Pathways to Language, Paleoanthropology lab
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

2021- 2023
Research Assistant and Assistant Project Manager

Loango Gorilla Project, Gabon - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig)

2019
Master of Science

in Evolution of Animal and Human Behavior
Department of Life Science and System Biology, University of Turin, Italy

2014
Bachelor of Science

in Animal Management and Welfare
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Teramo, Italy

Publications

Selected recent publications

Lameira, A.R., Santamaría-Bonfil, G., Galeone, D. et al. (2022) Sociality predicts orangutan vocal phenotype. Nat Ecol Evol 6, 644–652