November 2024: new doctoral and postdoctoral researchers at Palevoprim
PhD Students
Amngar Dasrabé is a new PhD Student at palevoprim focused on rodents from Chadian Hominini sites for biochronology, biogeography, paleoecology, paleoenvironments.
Haregwin Hailu focuses her PhD research on the spatial dynamics of Plio-Pleistocene mammalian communities in the Northern Great African #Rift, examining their relationships with global and regional factors.
Harmony Hill’s doctoral thesis with Amélie beaudet, seeks to study the evolution of brain perfusion and, by extension, metabolism within the hominin lineage by way of osteological proxies. This research comprises an investigative strand within Project CoEvol
Zoe starts her Ph.D. thesis at palevoprim on the (co)variation of long bones in fossil hominins to understand the evolution and the diversity of bipedalism with Amélie Beaudet, Guillaume Daver and franck Guy. She is enthusiast to integrate this wonderful team
Postdoctoral researcher
Our team is growing again! Palevoprim and the university of Poitiers are thrilled to welcome Abel Moclán to the lab as a FFyssen postdoc. Abel will work with Gildas Merceron on an exciting project studying the diet and the paleoecology of early Homo’s prey from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Charlotte’s postdoctoral project focuses on the vertebral trabecular bone of extant and fossil primates and aims to identify skeletal locomotor-related signals within the vertebral column that will help in refining the locomotor repertoire of fossil hominins.