People

Members

Casper Andersen

Assistant Professor

Email: ideca@hum.au.dk
Office: bldg. 1467-617
Phone: +45 8716 2893
Mobile: +45 2639 1325

Research areas:

History of science and technology in Africa
Imperial history
Natural and cultural heritage

Georgios Athanasiadis

Postdoc

Email: athanasiadis@birc.au.dk
blasbenito@gmail.com ideca@hum.au.dkOffice: bldg. 1467-226
Phone: +45 8715 5569
Twitter: @yorgos_a

Research areas:

Human population genomics
Primate evolution
Bioinformatics and algorithms

Blas M. Benito

Postdoc

Email: blas.benito@biology.au.dk
blasbenito@gmail.com ideca@hum.au.dkOffice: bldg. 1540-316 and bldg. 1467-226
Skype: blasbp
Twitter: @BlasMBenito

Research areas:

Ecoinformatics
Palaeoecology
Ecological niche of Neanderthals
Dynamic modeling of species distributions

Søren Besenbacher

Postdoc

Email: besen@birc.au.dk
Office: bldg. 1110-327
Phone: +45 4076 7286

Research areas:

Bioinformatics
The human mutation rate
Genetic epidemiology

Jade Yu-Cheng

PhD Student

Email: ycheng@cs.au.dk
Office: bldg. 1110-428
Phone: +45 8715 5572

Research areas:

Population genomics
Algorithms for bioinformatics
Data visualisation

Mathias Clasen

Assistant Professor

Email: engmc@hum.au.dk
Office: bldg. 1481-436
Phone: +45 8716 2631
Mobile: +45 30957804

Research areas:

Biocultural theory and criticism
Literature and media
Evolutionary approaches to the arts

Jessica Hartel

Postdoc

Email: hartel@cas.au.dk
Office: bldg. 1467-221
Phone: +45 871 62518
Mobile: +45 6022 5099

Research areas:

Chimpanzee behavior and ecology
Conservation and sustainability
Educational outreach

Peter C. Kjærgaard

Director, Professor

Email: kjaergaard@cas.au.dk
Office: bldg. 1465-624
Phone: +45 8716 2254
Mobile: +45 42660084

Research areas:

Human evolution
Biological anthropology
History of science, anthropology and archaeology

Alexandra Regina Kratschmer

Associate Professor

Email: romak@dac.au.dk
Office: building 1481-364
Phone: +45 8716 2604

Research areas:

Foreign language learning
Language in the brain
Language evolution

Thomas Mailund

Associate professor

Email: mailund@birc.au.dk
Office: bldg. 1110-326
Phone: +45 8715 5562

Research areas:

Genetics of speciation
Demographic inference
Genome evolution

Luseadra McKerracher

PhD candidate
Human Evolutionary Studies Program
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Email: ljm8@sfu.ca

Research areas:

Infant and young child feeding (IYCF)
Lactation
Cooperative breeding
Human evolutionary demography

Kasper Munch

Assistant Professor

Email: kaspermunch@birc.au.dk
Office: bldg. 1110-316
Phone: +45 8715 5558

Research areas:

Population genomics
Recombination
Evolution

Trine Kellberg Nielsen

PhD Student

Email: farktnielsen@hum.au.dk
Office: bldg. 4215
Phone: +45 8716 2434

Research areas:

Palaeolithic archaeology
Neandertal distribution
Human niche construction

Felix Riede

Associate Professor

Email: f.riede@hum.au.dk
Office: bldg. 4211-123
Phone: +45 8716 2083
Mobile: +45 60187382

Research areas:

Human niche construction
Pioneer colonisations
Palaeolithic archaeology

Brody Steven Sandel

Assistant Professor

Email: brody.sandel@biologi.au.dk
Office: bldg. 1540
Phone: +45 8715 6515

Research areas:

Ecoinformatics
Human ecology
Biodiversity

Mikkel Heide Schierup

Professor

Email: mheide@birc.au.dk
Office: bldg. 1110-323
Phone: +45 8715 6535
Mobile: +45 27782889

Research areas:

Primate evolutionary genomics
Bioinformatics
Association mapping

Jens-Christian Svenning

Professor

Email: svenning@biology.au.dk
Office: bldg. 1540-332
Phone: +45 8715 6571
Mobile: +45 28992304

Research areas:

Geographical ecology
Ecoinformatics
Biodiversity
Integrative neo- and paleoecology

Djuke Veldhuis

Postdoc

Email: djukev@aias.au.dk

Research areas:

Human adaptation
Evolutionary ecology
Biological anthropology

Visiting researchers

Joseph Carroll

Bioculture Visiting Professor

Email: jcarroll@umsl.edu
Office: bldg. 1467-221
Phone: +45 871 62518

Research areas:

Biocultural theory
Evolutionary literary criticism
Science and culture wars
History of evolutionary theory

Emelie Jonsson

Visiting PhD Student

Email: jonemchris@gmail.com
Office: bldg. 1465

Phone: +46 761456181

Research areas:

Biocultural theory
The adaptive function of the arts
Victorian literature
The history of science

Associate researchers

Peter K. A. Jensen

Chief Medical Doctor (retired)
Department of Clinical Genetics
Aarhus University Hospital

External Associate Professor (retired)

Institute of Human Genetics

Aarhus University

Email: peter.kaj@hotmail.com

Research areas:

Human and medical genetics.
Inherited diseases.
Human evolution.

Stefaan Blancke

PhD, Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences
Ghent University, Belgium
Email: st.blancke@gmail.com

Research areas:

Creationism in Europe
History and philosophy of biology
Evolutionary psychology and cultural evolution

Hans Henrik Hjermitslev

PhD, University College Syddanmark
Email: hhhj@ucsyd.dk

Research areas:

History of science and religion
Creationism in Scandinavia
History of evolutionary theory

Frank Grønlund Jørgensen

PhD, Tørring Gymnasium

Email: fg@toerring-gym.dk
Phone: +4560607862

Research areas:

Molecular evolution
Phylogenetics
Science teaching

Hans Christian Petersen

PhD, Associate professor

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Southern Denmark
Email: hcpetersen@stat.sdu.dk ljm8@sfu.ca

Research areas:

Evolutionary anthropology
Morphometrics
Mesolithic populations in Europe

Sandra Tranquilli

PhD, Department of Biological Anthropology
UCL, London, UK
Email: sandra.tranq@gmail.com

Research areas:

Biological anthropology
Biodiversity conservation
Human ecology

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Mathias Clasen

Revised 13.11.2018