Lecture for PhD students and postdocs by Professor Katerina Harvati, Eugène Dubois Chairholder for the year 2018.
When: Wednesday 12 September, 13.30 – 15.30.
Where: FHML, UNS50, Room H1.331 (bonte zaal)
Prof. Harvati left Greece after finishing high school and obtained a BA, MA and PhD at Columbia University and City University of New York.
Before her appointment as Professor in Paleoanthropology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen in 2009, she was Assistant Professor at New York University and Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.
Prof. Harvati is a paleoanthropologist specialising in Neanderthal evolution, modern human origins and the application of 3-D geometric morphometric and virtual anthropology methods to paleoanthropology. Her broader research interests include primate and human evolution;evolutionary theory; evolution of primate and human life-history; the relationship of morphologicalvariability to population history and the environment; and Paleolithic archaeology. She has conducted fieldwork in Europe and Africa, and recently directed paleoanthropological fieldwork in Greece and Tanzania.
Her work has been published in Nature, Science and other prestigious journals. Her research was named one of the top 10 scientific discoveries of the year 2007 by TIME magazine for demonstrating the African origin of all modern humans. In 2010 she was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her contributions to Paleoanthropology. She was awarded the prestigious Research Award of the state of Baden-Württemberg in 2014.
Prof. Harvati is the recipient of two ERC grants (ERC Starting Grant ‘Paleoanthropology at the Gates of Europe’, 2011; ERC Consolidator Grant ‘Human Evolution at the Crossroads’, 2016). In addition to her ongoing Consolidator Grant (CROSSROADS) she is co-director of the DFG Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Tracking linguistic, cultural and biological trajectories of the human past’.
In this lecture Prof. Harvati will illustrate her successful career on the basis of practical examples dealing with options, choices, changes, applications etc.
