Curriculum vitae
(This is a shortened version of my CV.)
Education
- Ph.D in Gene Technology @University of Tartu 🇪🇪, 2018 - 2022
- M.S. in Biological Anthropology @Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 🇩🇪 , 2016 - 2018
- B.S. in Biotechnology/Bioinformatics @University of Applied Sciences Mittweida 🇩🇪, 2012 - 2016
- B.S. in Applied Bioscience with Forensic Investigation @University of the West of Scotland 🇬🇧, 2014 - 2015
Work experience
- Since September 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher
- Workplace: University of Turku (Finland)
- Group leader: Elina Salmela
- March - August 2025: Research Assistant
- Workplace: University of Tartu (Estonia)
- Project: Ancestors
- Group leader: Toomas Kivisild, John Robb
- (also during September 2022 - February 2023)
- February 2023 - January 2025: Postdoctoral Fellow
- Workplace: Uppsala University (Sweden)
- Project: BronzeAgeRake - Disentangling the human past in the Middle East during the Bronze Age using ancient DNA
- Groupp leader: Mattias Jakobsson
- August 2018 - August 2022: PhD student
- Workplace: University of Tartu (Estonia)
- Supervisor: Christiana L. Scheib, Luca Pagani, Toomas Kivisild, Mait Metspalu
- November 2017 - July 2018: Master student
- Workplace: Institute for Mummy Studies (Bolzano)
- Supervisor: Valentina Coia
- March 2016 - September 2016: Bachelor student
- Workplace: Max Planck Institute for the Science of human history
- Supervisor: Stephan Schiffels
Supervision
- September 2023 - June 2024: Supervision of Master student Andrea Soler i Núñez (MSc)
- Workplace: Uppsala University (Sweden)
- Title of Master thesis: Preliminary insights into the Bronze-to-Iron Age human demographic history of Pella (Jordan) using an ancient DNA approach
- Andrea is now PhD candidate in the Schlehbusch Group, Uppala University (Sweden)