Senior Scientist (Ancient DNA lab)

The Vienna Doctoral School of Ecology and Evolution is dedicated to educating students to advance our understanding of the ecology and evolution of extant and ancestral organisms, populations, and communities. In Ecology, the focus is on uncovering the mechanistic and evolutionary drivers of patterns and processes across biological scales, from gene regulation to ecosystem structure and function, including the role of communities in biogeochemical cycles and their adaptive responses to environmental change. In Evolution, we investigate the processes shaping changes in organization and dynamics of organisms, populations, and species at molecular, developmental, morphological, and physiological levels.

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As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics Maria C Avila-Arcos from National Autonomous University of Mexico will give a talk on Paleogenomic evidence of patogen introductions to Mexico fo...

by Prof. Tom Higham, head of HEAS.   The visit of the world-famous Lucy skeleton to Prague in October 2025 led to the idea of a HEAS fieldtrip to the Czech Republic.   “Lucy” is the remarkably complet...

Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

Förderung für Historikerin Eva-Maria Muschik, Mikrobiologin Megan Sørensen und Geschichtssoziologin Agata Zysiak

A study of 483 mammoth remains spanning over a million years reveals ancient host-associated microbes preserved in bones and teeth, offering new insights into the long-term evolution of Pleistocene mi...

New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany)

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Several sites in the Americas are proposed to have evidence of human occupation before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). The timing of human colonisation of the Americas is a matter of debate due to its...

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McGrath, K., van der Sluis, L.G., Lefebvre, A., Charpentier, A., Rodrigues, A.S.L., Álvarez-Fernández, E., Baleux, F., Berganza, E., Chauvière, F.-X., Dachary, M., Duarte Matías, E., Houmard, C., Marí...

Here the authors apply ZooMS, radiocarbon, and stable isotope analyses to whale bones from the Bay of Biscay. They find that humans were utilizing the remains of at least five species of whales from 2...

Here, the authors present mtDNA and chronological data for sediments from excavations in the South Chamber of Denisova Cave, from which they construct a timeline of hominin and faunal occupation that ...

We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...

Several bacterial pathogens have transitioned from tick-borne to louse-borne transmission, which often involves genome reduction and increasing virulence. However, the timing of such transitions remai...

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—In this study, we review and analyze one of the most scarcely recorded carnivorans of the European Quaternary, the leopard (Panthera pardus), focusin…

Some of the country’s most loved native species, including the koala and the hairy-nosed wombat, are on the brink. Is this their last chance at survival?

Analysing phylogenetic relationships, genome-wide selective sweeps and genetic differentiation among global populations of Aedes aegypti, the authors identify adaptive signals in 186 genes related to ...

A Nature Index data set shows which countries, institutions and topic areas are making the greatest progress towards gender equity in research.