Dr. Carolin Röding
Function: Postdoctoral Researcher
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoecology, Paläoanthropologie
Rümelinstr. 23
D-72070 Tübingen
Room 705, Hauptgebäude, DG
+49 (0)7071 29 74867
carolin.roeding@uni-tuebingen.de
Sprechzeiten: nach Vereinbarung
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.
Academic Trajectory
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
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
In Prep
Röding, C., Lacruz, R., El-Zaatari, S., Stringer, C., and Harvati, K. (accepted). Mugharet el’Aliya: adapting the method of surface registration to the hominin fossil record.
Röding, C. & Giemsch, L. (accepted). The Early Iron Age elite burial from Frankfurt am Main, Stadtwald: a new cranial reconstruction and paleopathological reanalysis.
2023
Röding, 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
2021
Röding, 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.
2019
Harvati, 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.