Paläoanthropologie

Dr. Carolin Röding

Function: Postdoctoral Researcher

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoecology
Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Abt. Paleoanthropology
Rümelinstr. 23
D-72070 Tübingen

Room 503, Hauptgebäude, 2. OG

+49 (0)7071 29 76518
carolin.roedingspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de 

Consulting hours: by arrangement

About

Carolin Röding is a postdoctoral researcher in the FIRSTSTEPS project at the University of Tübingen.
While completing her bachelor’s degree in Biology she developed an interest in human evolution with a special emphasis on brain evolution. In her master thesis she continued to use the methodological toolkit of geometric morphometrics to answer questions about the cerebellar evolution in hominids. During the subsequent PhD her focus shifted slightly to virtual cranial reconstructions and adapting cutting edge methodology to the study of very fragmented hominin cranial and dental remains from the broader Mediterranean region. Further her research interests include hominin variation, the interaction between brain and braincase as well as cranial integration and modularity.

Links

Research Gate     ORCID     Google Scholar     FIRSTSTEPS

Academic Trajectory

2026 - present
Curator of the Osteological Collection

Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoecology, Palaeoanthropology working group, University of Tübingen

contact for the collection: osut.kontaktspam prevention@ifu.uni-tuebingen.de 

2022 - 2027
Postdoctoral Researcher

FIRSTSTEPS project, University of Tübingen

2018-2022
Ph.D. in Archaeological Sciences and Human Evolution

CROSSROADS project, University of Tübingen

2015 - 2017
MSc. In Archaeological Sciences

specialization in Paleoanthropology, University of Tübingen, Germany

2015
External bachelor thesis

Dep. of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

2011 - 2015
BSc. in Biology

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Grants

2025
Universitäts Bund at the University of Tübingen for the travel costs to ESHE 2025
2022
Universitäts Bund at the Unversity of Tübingen for the travel costs to the EAA 2022
2021
Universitäts Bund at the University of Tübingen for the conference fees of the EAA 2021
2021
iNEAL Short-term scientific mission (STSM) grant for a research visit to Zagreb, Croatia (July 2021)
2021
DAAD Kongressreisen Stipendium for the conference fees of the AAPA 2021

Selected Publications

2026Röding, C., Profico, A., Merkel, M., & Harvati, K. (2026). A morphological analysis of the modern human frontal bone from Hahnöfersand, Germany. Scientific Reports, 16, 12696. Doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-48468-5
2025Röding, C., El-Zaatari, S., Ramirez Rozzi, F. V., Stringer, C., Burgess, M. L., Lacruz, R., & Harvati, K. (2025). Dentition of the Mugharet el’Aliya fossil human maxilla, Morocco. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 186 (2), e70015. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.70015.
2023Röding, C., Stringer, C., Lacruz, R. S., & Harvati, K. (2023). Mugharet el'Aliya: Affinities of an enigmatic north African Aterian maxillary fragment. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 180(2), 352-369. Doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24642
2021Röding, C., Zastrow, J., Scherf, H., Doukas, C., and Harvati, K. (2021). Crown outline analyses of the hominin upper third molar from the Megalopolis basin, Peloponnese, Greece. In Ancient Connections in Eurasia, ed. by H. Reyes-Centeno and K. Harvati, pp. 16-36. Tübingen: Kerns Verlag. Doi: 10.51315/9783935751377.001.
2019Harvati, K., Röding, C., Bosman, A. M., Karakostis, F. A., Grün, R., Stringer, C., Karkanas, P., Thompson, N. C., Koutoulidis, V., Moulopoulos, L. A., Gorgoulis, V. G., and Kouloukoussa, M. (2019). Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Nature, 571(7766), 500-504. Doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z.