Melania Ioannidou
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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