Paläoanthropologie

Melania Ioannidou

Function: Postdoctoral Researcher


Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Abt. Paläoanthropologie
Rümelinstr. 23
D-72070 Tübingen

Room 504, Hauptgebäude 2. OG
melania.ioannidouspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Consulting hours: by arrangement

Academic and Professional Trajectory

2022 - present
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. Archaeological 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 Centre 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

Grants - Scholarships

2024
Universitäts Bund at the University of Tübingen

Travel grant to the SVP 2024 (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

2018
Grant from the A.G. Leventis Foundation
2017
Grant from the A.G. Leventis Foundation
2016
Grant from the A.G. Leventis Foundation
2013
Scholarship from DAAD for a Master’s Degree (for 2 full years)

Publications

2025

Kunze, J., Karakostis, A., Ioannidou, M., Koufos, G. D., and Harvati, K. (2025).
Geometric morphometric analysis of the intermediate phalanx of Ouranopithecus
macedoniensis – a pilot study. Human Evolution at the CROSSROADS (Eds: Katerina
Harvati, Melania Ioannidou). Tübingen Paleoanthropology Book Series – Contributions
in Paleoanthropology III. Tübingen University Press. Doi: 10.15496/publikation-97665

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