Melania Ioannidou
Function: Research associate
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Abt. Paläoanthropologie
Rümelinstr. 23
D-72070 Tübingen
melania.ioannidou @uni-tuebingen.de
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Academic and Professional Trajectory
2022 - Present
Research associate
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