Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, University of Vienna
Since August 2021
Group leader of the Computational Admixture Genomics lab at the Department for Evolutionary Anthropology, with funding from WWTF.
LaCaixa JuniorLeader, UPF
April 2019 – July 2021
Postdoctoral fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Postdoctoral researcher, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
October 2015 – March 2019
Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Oct 2015 – Oct 2018 with a fellowship from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Supervisor: Tomas Marques-Bonet
Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
June 2010 – October 2015
PhD student at MPI-EVA/University of Leipzig, Germany
Supervisor: Svante Pääbo
Grade: Magna cum laude
University of Halle-Wittenberg
2004 – 2010
German Diplom studies in Biology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Thesis supervisor: Gunter Reuter
Publications as main author
Links lead to publisher website. I will happily share PDFs in case you cannot access them there.
Screening great ape museum specimens for DNA viruses
2024, Scientific Reports
M. Hämmerle, M. Guellil, L. Trgovec-Greif, O. Cheronet, S. Sawyer, I. Ruiz-Gartzia, E. Lizano, A. Rymbekova, P. Gelabert, P. Bernardi, S. Han, T. Rattei, V.J. Schuenemann, T. Marques-Bonet, K. Guschanski, S. Calvignac-Spencer, R. Pinhasi, and M. Kuhlwilm
Link between Monkeypox Virus Genomes from Museum Specimens and 1965 Zoo Outbreak
2024, Emerging Infectious Diseases
M. Hämmerle, A. Rymbekova, P. Gelabert, S. Sawyer, O. Cheronet, P. Bernardi, S. Calvignac-Spencer, M. Kuhlwilm*, M. Guellil*, and R. Pinhasi*
Harnessing deep learning for population genetic inference
2023, Nature Reviews Genetics
X. Huang, A. Rymbekova, O. Dolgova, O. Lao, M. Kuhlwilm
Ghost admixture in eastern gorillas
2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
H. Pawar, A. Rymbekova, S. Cuadros-Espinoza, X. Huang, M. de Manuel, T. van der Valk, I. Lobon, M. Alvarez-Estape, M. Haber, O. Dolgova, S. Han, P. Esteller-Cucala, D. Juan, Q. Ayub, R. Bautista, J.L. Kelley, O.E. Cornejo, O. Lao, A.M. Andrés, K. Guschanski, B. Ssebide, M. Cranfield, C. Tyler-Smith, Y. Xue, J. Prado-Martinez, T. Marques-Bonet*, and M. Kuhlwilm*
sstar: A Python package for detecting archaic introgression from population genetic data with S*
2022, Molecular Biology & Evolution
X. Huang, P. Kruisz, M. Kuhlwilm
The genetic impact of an Ebola outbreak on a wild gorilla population
2021, BMC Genomics
C. Fontsere, P. Frandsen, J. Hernandez-Rodriguez, J. Niemann, C.H. Scharff-Olsen, D. Vallet, P. Le Gouar, N. Ménard, A. Navarro, H.R. Siegismund, C. Hvilsom, M.T.P. Gilbert, M. Kuhlwilm*, D. Hughes*, and T. Marques-Bonet*
HuConTest: Testing human contamination in great ape samples
2021, Genome Biology & Evolution
M. Kuhlwilm, C. Fontsere, S. Han, M. Alvarez-Estape, and T. Marques-Bonet
Admixture in mammals and how to understand its functional implications
2019, BioEssays
C. Fontsere*, M. de Manuel*, T. Marques-Bonet, M. Kuhlwilm
A catalog of single nucleotide changes distinguishing modern humans from archaic hominins
2019, Scientific Reports
M. Kuhlwilm and C. Boeckx
Ancient admixture from an extinct ape lineage into bonobos
2019, Nature Ecology & Evolution
M. Kuhlwilm, S. Han, V. C. Sousa, L. Excoffier, T. Marques-Bonet
Genetic variation in Pan species is shaped by demographic history and harbors lineage-specific functions
2019, Genome Biology & Evolution
S. Han, A. M. Andrés, T. Marques-Bonet, and M. Kuhlwilm
The evolution of FOXP2 in the light of admixture
2018, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
M. Kuhlwilm
Chimpanzee genomic diversity reveals ancient admixture with bonobos
2016, Science
M. de Manuel*, M. Kuhlwilm*, P. Frandsen*, V. C. Sousa, T. Desai, J. Prado-Martinez, J. Hernandez-Rodriguez, I. Dupanloup, O. Lao, P. Hallast, J. M. Schmidt, J. M. Heredia-Genestar, A. Benazzo, G. Barbujani, B. M. Peter, L. F. K. Kuderna, F. Casals, S. Angedakin, M. Arandjelovic, C. Boesch, H. Kühl, L. Vigilant, K. Langergraber, J. Novembre, M. Gut, I. Gut, A. Navarro, F. Carlsen, A. M. Andrés, H. R. Siegismund, A. Scally, L. Excoffier, C. Tyler-Smith, S. Castellano, Y. Xue, C. Hvilsom, and T. Marques-Bonet
Ancient Gene Flow from Early Modern Humans into Eastern Neanderthals
2016, Nature
M. Kuhlwilm*, I. Gronau*, M. J. Hubisz, C. de Filippo, J. Prado-Martinez, M. Kircher, Q. Fu, H. A. Burbano, C. Lalueza-Fox, M. de la Rasilla, A. Rosas, P. Rudan, D. Brajkovic, Z. Kucan, I. Gusic, T. Marques-Bonet, A. M. Andres, B. Viola, S. Pääbo, M. Meyer, A. Siepel, and S. Castellano
Identification of Putative Target Genes of the Transcription Factor Runx2
2013, PLOS One
M. Kuhlwilm, A. Davierwala, and S. Pääbo
Other publications
Intra-individual variability in ancient plasmodium DNA recovery highlights need for enhanced sampling
2025, Scientific Reports
A. Llanos-Lizcano, M. Hämmerle, A. Sperduti, S. Sawyer, B. Zagorc, K.T. Özdoğan, M. Guellil, O. Cheronet, M. Kuhlwilm, R. Pinhasi, and P. Gelabert
Social and genetic diversity in first farmers of central Europe
2024, Nature Human Behaviour
P. Gelabert, P. Bickle, D. Hofmann, M. Teschler-Nicola, A. Anders, X. Huang, M. Hämmerle, I. Olalde, R. Fournier, H. Ringbauer, A. Akbari, O. Cheronet, I. Lazaridis, N. Broomandkhoshbacht, D.M. Fernandes, K. Buttinger, K. Callan, F. Candilio, G. Bravo Morante, E. Curtis, M. Ferry, D. Keating, S. Freilich, A. Kearns, E. Harney, A. M. Lawson, K. Mandl, M. Michel, V. Oberreiter, B. Zagorc, J. Oppenheimer, S. Sawyer, C. Schattke, K. T. Özdoğan, L. Qiu, J. N. Workman, F. Zalzala, S. Mallick, M. Mah, A. Micco, F. Pieler, J. Pavuk, A. Šefčáková, C. Lazar, A. Starović, M. Djuric, M. K. Škrivanko, M. Šlaus, Z. Bedić, F. Novotny, L. D. Szabó, O. Cserpák-Laczi, T. Hága, L. Szolnoki, Z. Hajdú, P. Mirea, E. Gyöngyvér Nagy, Z. M. Virág, A. Horváth M., L. A. Horváth, K. T. Biró, L. Domboróczki, T. Szeniczey, J. Jakucs, M. Szelekovszky, F. Zoltán, S. J. Sztáncsuj, K. Tóth, P. Csengeri, I. Pap, R. Patay, A. Putica, B. Vasov, B. Havasi, K. Sebők, P. Raczky, G. Lovász, Z. Tvrdý, N. Rohland, M. Novak, M. Ruttkay, Maria K., J. Bátora, T. Paluch, D. Borić, J. Dani, M. Kuhlwilm, P. F. Palamara, T. Hajdu, R. Pinhasi, and D. Reich
Deep genetic substructure within bonobos
2024, Current Biology
S. Han, C. de Filippo, G. Parra, J.R. Meneu, R. Laurent, P. Frandsen, C. Hvilsom, I. Gronau, T. Marques-Bonet, M. Kuhlwilm, and A.M. Andrés
Identification of constrained sequence elements across 239 primate genomes
2023, Nature
L. F. K. Kuderna, J. C. Ulirsch, S. Rashid, M. Ameen, L. Sundaram, G. Hickey, A. J. Cox, H. Gao, A. Kumar, F. Aguet, M. J. Christmas, H. Clawson, M. Haeussler, M. C. Janiak, M. Kuhlwilm, J. D. Orkin, T. Bataillon, S. Manu, A. Valenzuela, J. Bergman, M. Rouselle, F.E. Silva, L. Agueda, J. Blanc, M. Gut, D. de Vries, J. Goodhead, R. A. Harris, M. Raveendran, A. Jensen, I. S. Chuma, J. E. Horvath, C. Hvilsom, D. Juan, P. Frandsen, J. G. Schraiber, F. R. de Melo, F. Bertuol, H. Byrne, I. Sampaio, I. Farias, J. Valsecchi, M. Messias, M. N. F. da Silva, M. Trivedi, R. Rossi, T. Hrbek, N. Andriaholinirina, C. J. Rabarivola, A. Zaramody, C. J. Jolly, J. Phillips-Conroy, G. Wilkerson, C. Abee, J. H. Simmons, E. Fernandez-Duque, S. Kanthaswamy, F. Shiferaw, D. Wu, L. Zhou, Y. Shao, G. Zhang, J. D. Keyyu, S. Knauf, M. D. Le, E. Lizano, S. Merker, A. Navarro, T. Nadler, C. C. Khor, J. Lee, P. Tan, W. K. Lim, A. C. Kitchener, D. Zinner, I. Gut, A.D. Melin, K. Guschanski, M. H. Schierup, R. M. D. Beck, I. Karakikes, K. C. Wang, G. Umapathy, C. Roos, J. P. Boubli, A. Siepel, A. Kundaje, B. Paten, K. Lindblad-Toh, J. Rogers, T. Marques Bonet, and K. K.-H. Farh
A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species
2023, Science
L. F. K. Kuderna, H. Gao, M. C. Janiak, M. Kuhlwilm, J. D. Orkin, T. Bataillon, S. Manu, A. Valenzuela, J. Bergman, M. Rousselle, F. E. Silva, L. Agueda, J. Blanc, M. Gut, D. de Vries, I. Goodhead, R. A. Harris, M. Raveendran, A. Jensen, I. S. Chuma, J. E. Horvath, C. Hvilsom, D. Juan, P. Frandsen, J. G. Schraiber, F. R. de Melo, F. Bertuol, H. Byrne, I. Sampaio, I. Farias, J. Valsecchi, M. Messias, M. N. F. da Silva, M. Trivedi, R. Rossi, T. Hrbek, N. Andriaholinirina, C. J. Rabarivola, A. Zaramody, C. J. Jolly, J. Phillips-Conroy, G. Wilkerson, C. Abee, J. H. Simmons, E. Fernandez-Duque, S. Kanthaswamy, F. Shiferaw, D. Wu, L. Zhou, Y. Shao, G. Zhang, J. D. Keyyu, S. Knauf, M. D. Le, E. Lizano, S. Merker, A. Navarro, T. Nadler, C. C. Khor, J. Lee, P. Tan, W. K. Lim, A. C. Kitchener, D. Zinner, I. Gut, A. D. Melin, K. Guschanski, M. H. Schierup, R. M. D. Beck, G. Umapathy, C. Roos, J. P. Boubli, J. Rogers, K. K.-H. Farh, and T. Marques Bonet
The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates
2023, Science
H. Gao, T. Hamp, J. Ede, J. G. Schraiber, J. McRae, M. Singer-Berk, Y. Yang, A. S. D. Dietrich, P. P. Fiziev, L. F. K. Kuderna, L. Sundaram, Y. Wu, A. Adhikari, Y. Field, C. Chen, S. Batzoglou, F. Aguet, G. Lemire, R. Reimers, D. Balick, M. C. Janiak, M. Kuhlwilm, J. D. Orkin, S. Manu, A. Valenzuela, J. Bergman, M. Rousselle, F. E. Silva, L. Agueda, J. Blanc, M. Gut, D. de Vries, I. Goodhead, R. A. Harris, M. Raveendran, A. Jensen, I. S. Chuma, J. E. Horvath, C. Hvilsom, D. Juan, P. Frandsen, F. R. de Melo, F. Bertuol, H. Byrne, I. Sampaio, I. Farias, J. V. do Amaral, M. Messias, M. N. F. da Silva, M. Trivedi, R. Rossi, T. Hrbek, N. Andriaholinirina, C. J. Rabarivola, A. Zaramody, C. J. Jolly, J. Phillips-Conroy, G. Wilkerson, C. Abee, J. H. Simmons, E. Fernandez-Duque, S. Kanthaswamy, F. Shiferaw, D. Wu, L. Zhou, Y. Shao, G. Zhang, J. D. Keyyu, S. Knauf, M. D. Le, E. Lizano, S. Merker, A. Navarro, T. Bataillon, T. Nadler, C. C. Khor, J. Lee, P. Tan, W. K. Lim, A. C. Kitchener, D. Zinner, I. Gut, A. Melin, K. Guschanski, M. H. Schierup, R. M. D. Beck, G. Umapathy, C. Roos, J. P. Boubli, M. Lek, S. Sunyaev, A. O’Donnell-Luria, H. L. Rehm, J. Xu, J. Rogers, T. Marques-Bonet, and K. K.-H. Farh
Genome-wide coancestry reveals details of ancient and recent male-driven reticulation in baboons
2023, Science
E. F. Sørensen, R. A. Harris, L. Zhang, M. Raveendran, L. F. K. Kuderna, J. A. Walker, J. M. Storer, M. Kuhlwilm, C. Fontsere, L. Seshadri, C. M. Bergey, A. S. Burrell, J. Bergman, J. E. Phillips-Conroy, F. Shiferaw, K. L. Chiou, I. S. Chuma, J. D. Keyyu, J. Fischer, M.-C. Gingras, S. Salvi, H. Doddapaneni, M. H. Schierup, M. A. Batzer, C. J. Jolly, S. Knauf, D. Zinner, K. K.-H. Farh, T. Marques-Bonet, K. Munch, C. Roos, and J. Rogers
Divergent sensory and immune gene evolution in sea turtles with contrasting demographic and life histories
2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
B.P. Bentley, T. Carrasco-Valenzuela, E.K.S. Ramos, H. Pawar, L. Souza Arantes, A. Alexander, S.M. Banerjee, P. Masterson, M. Kuhlwilm, M. Pippel, J. Mountcastle, B. Haase, M. Uliano-Silva, G. Formenti, K. Howe, W. Chow, A. Tracey, Y. Sims, S. Pelan, J. Wood, K. Yetsko, J.R. Perrault, K. Stewart, S.R. Benson, Y. Levy, E.V. Toddt , H.B. Shaffer, P. Scott, B.T. Henen, R.W. Murphy, D.W. Mohr, A.F. Scott, DJ. Duffy, N.J. Gemmell, A.Suh, S. Winkler, F. Thibaud-Nissen, M.F. Nery, T. Marques-Bonet, A.Antunes, Y. Tikochinski, P.H. Dutton, O. Fedrigo, E.W. Myers, E.D. Jarvis, C.J. Mazzoni, L.M. Komoroske
Temporal mapping of derived high-frequency gene variants supports the mosaic nature of the evolution of Homo sapiens
2022, Scientific Reports
A. Andirkó, J. Moriano, A. Vitriolo, M. Kuhlwilm, G. Testa, and C. Boeckx
Population dynamics and genetic connectivity in recent chimpanzee history
2022, Cell Genomics
C. Fontsere, M. Kuhlwilm, C. Morcillo-Suarez, M. Alvarez-Estape, J.D. Lester, P. Gratton, J.M. Schmidt, P. Dieguez, T. Aebischer, P. Álvarez-Varona, A. Agbor, S. Angedakin, A.K. Assumang, E.A. Ayimisin, E. Bailey, D. Barubiyo, M. Bessone, A. Carretero-Alonso, R. Chancellor, H. Cohen, E. Danquah, T. Deschner, A. Dunn, J. Dupain, V.E. Egbe, O. Feliu, A. Goedmakers, A. Granjon, J. Head, D. Hedwig, V. Hermans, R.A. Hernandez-Aguilar, I. Imong, S. Jones, J. Junker, P. Kadam, M. Kaiser, M. Kambere, M.V. Kambale, A.K. Kalan, I. Kienast, D. Kujirakwinja, K. Langergraber, J. Lapuente, B. Larson, A. Laudisoit, K. Lee, M. Llana, M. Llorente, S. Marrocoli, D. Morgan, F. Mulindahabi, M. Murai, E. Neil, S. Nicholl, S. Nixon, E. Normand, C. Orbell, L.J. Ormsby, L. Pacheco, A. Piel, L. Riera, M.M. Robbins, A. Rundus, C. Sanz, L. Sciaky, V. Sommer, F.A. Stewart, N. Tagg, L.R. Tedonzong, E. Ton, J. van Schijndel, V. Vergnes, E.G. Wessling, J. Willie, R.M. Wittig, Y.G. Yuh, K. Yurkiw, K. Zuberbuehler, J. Hecht, L. Vigilant, C. Boesch, A.M. Andres, D.A. Hughes, H.S. Kühl, E. Lizano, M. Arandjelovic, and T. Marques-Bonet
Epigenomic profiling of primate lymphoblastoid cell lines reveals the evolutionary patterns of epigenetic activities in gene regulatory architectures
2021, Nature Communcations
R. García-Pérez, P. Esteller-Cucala, G. Mas, I. Lobón, V. Di Carlo, M. Riera, M. Kuhlwilm, A. Navarro, A. Blancher, L. Di Croce, J. L. Gómez-Skarmeta, D. Juan, and T. Marquès-Bonet
Maximizing the acquisition of unique reads in non-invasive capture sequencing experiments
2020, Molecular Ecology Resources
C. Fontsere, M. Alvarez-Estape, J. Lester, M. Arandjelovic, M. Kuhlwilm, P. Dieguez, A. Agbor, S. Angedakin, E. A. Ayimisin, M. Bessone, G. Brazzola, T. Deschner, M. Eno-Nku, A.-C. Granjon, J. Head, P. Kadam, A. K. Kalan, M. Kambi, K. Langergraber, J. Lapuente, G. Maretti, L. J. Ormsby, A. Piel, M. M. Robbins, F. Stewart, V. Vergnes, R. M. Wittig, H. S. Kühl, T. Marques-Bonet, D. A. Hughes, and E. Lizano
Resurrection of the ghosts (Comment on DOI 10.1002/bies.202000012)
2020, BioEssays
M. Kuhlwilm
The dental proteome of Homo antecessor
2020, Nature
F. Welker, J. Ramos-Madrigal, P. Gutenbrunner, M. Mackie, S. Tiwary, R. Rakownikow Jersie-Christensen, C. Chiva, M. R. Dickinson, M. Kuhlwilm, M. de Manuel, P. Gelabert, M. Martinón-Torres, A. Margvelashvili, J. L. Arsuaga, E. Carbonell, T. Marques-Bonet, K. Penkman, E. Sabidó, J. Cox, J. V. Olsen, D. Lordkipanidze, F. Racimo, C. Lalueza-Fox, J. M. Bermúdez de Castro, E. Willerslev, E. Cappellini
Dental enamel proteome sequencing reveals Gigantopithecus as an early diverging pongine
2019, Nature
F. Welker, J. Ramos-Madrigal, M. Kuhlwilm, W. Liao, P. Gutenbrunner, M. de Manuel, D. Samodova, M. Mackie, M. E. Allentoft, A.-M. Bacon, J. Cox, C. Lalueza-Fox, J. V. Olsen, F. Demeter , W. Wang, T. Marques-Bonet, E. Cappellini
The Genomic Footprints of the Fall and Recovery of the Crested Ibis
2019, Current Biology
S. Feng, Q. Fang, R. Barnett, C. Li, S. Han, M. Kuhlwilm, L. Zhou, H. Pan, Y. Deng, G. Chen, A. Gamauf, F. Woog, R. Prys-Jones, T. Marques-Bonet, M. T. P. Gilbert, and G. Zhang
Selective single molecule sequencing and assembly of a human Y chromosome of African origin
2019, Nature Communications
L. F. K. Kuderna, E. Lizano, E. Julià, J. Gomez-Garrido, A. Serres-Armero, M. Kuhlwilm, R. A. Alandes, M. Alvarez-Estape, D. Juan, S. Heath, T. Alioto, M. Gut, I. Gut, M. H. Schierup, O. Fornas, and T. Marques-Bonet
Selection in the Introgressed Regions of the Chimpanzee Genome
2018, Genome Biology & Evolution
J. Nye, H. Laayouni, M. Kuhlwilm, M. Mondal, T. Marques-Bonet, and J. Bertranpetit
Evolution and demography of the great apes
2016, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
M. Kuhlwilm*, M. de Manuel*, A. Nater*, M. P. Greminger*, M. Krützen, and T. Marques-Bonet
A Test for Ancient Selective Sweeps and an Application to Candidate Sites in Modern Humans
2014, Molecular Biology & Evolution
F. Racimo, M. Kuhlwilm, and M. Slatkin
Analysis of Candidate Genes for Lineage-Specific Expression Changes in Humans and Primates
2014, Journal of Proteome Research
C. Lindskog, M. Kuhlwilm, A. Davierwala, N. Fu, G. Hegde, M. Uhlen, S. Navani, S. Paabo, and F. Ponten
Patterns of Coding Variation in the Complete Exomes of Three Neandertals
2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
S. Castellano, G. Parra*, F. A. Sanchez-Quinto*, F. Racimo*, M. Kuhlwilm*, M. Kircher, S. Sawyer, Q. Fu, A. Heinze, B. Nickel, J. Dabney, M. Siebauer, L. White, H. A. Burbano, G. Renaud, U. Stenzel, C. Lalueza-Fox, M. de la Rasilla, A. Rosas, P. Rudan, D. Brajkovic, Z. Kucan, I. Gusic, M. V. Shunkov, A. P. Derevianko, B. Viola, M. Meyer, J. Kelso, A. M. Andres, and S. Pääbo
The Complete Genome Sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains
2014, Nature
K. Prüfer, F. Racimo, N. Patterson, F. Jay, S. Sankararaman, S. Sawyer, A. Heinze, G. Renaud, P. H. Sudmant, C. de Filippo, H. Li, S. Mallick, M. Dannemann, Q. Fu, M. Kircher, M. Kuhlwilm, M. Lachmann, M. Meyer, M. Ongyerth, M. Siebauer, C. Theunert, A. Tandon, P. Moorjani, J. Pickrell, J. C. Mullikin, S. H. Vohr, R. E. Green, I. Hellmann, P. L. Johnson, H. Blanche, H. Cann, J. O. Kitzman, J. Shendure, E. E. Eichler, E. S. Lein, T. E. Bakken, L. V. Golovanova, V. B. Doronichev, M. V. Shunkov, A. P. Derevianko, B. Viola, M. Slatkin, D. Reich, J. Kelso, and S. Pääbo
Teaching
UniVie Winter semester:
Computational genomics approaches to evolution and human history (lecture)
Applications of admixture genomics (practical course)
UniVie Summer semester:
Evolutionary Genomics and Admixture (lecture)
Sequencing bioinformatics for beginners (practical course)
July 2022/September 2023: iNEAL network Training school workshops at University of Vienna
2017-2018: Teaching Mentorship Programme of Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2017|2018|2019|2020: Course Genomes & Systems (with Prof. Marques-Bonet), UPF
2015-2019: Lectures at MPI-EVA, UPF, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Experience & Achievements
Conferences & Talks
2023: 2nd Münster Evolution Meeting, Münster
2019: EMBO|EMBL Symposium “Reconstructing the Human Past”, Heidelberg
2018: 1st AsiaEvo Conference, Shenzhen (Invited speaker)
2017: 15th RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite Conference, Barcelona
2017: Protolang 5, Barcelona (Keynote speaker)
2016: XXI Population Genetics and Evolution Seminar, Sitges
Invited talks at KOSEAA (Vienna, 2024), University of Buffalo (2023), VetMedUni Vienna (2023), Free University of Berlin (2022), University of Zürich (2022, 2023), The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (2022, online), Al-Khwarizmi Engineering College Baghdad (2021, online), Aarhus University (2019), University of Barcelona (2016), Ewha Womens University (2015)
Poster presentations at EMBO|EMBL Symposium “Reconstructing the Human Past” (2022), Evolution II (2019), CSHL Biology of Genomes (2017), SMBE (2014, 2023, 2024), EMBO Evolution Conference (2014)
Grants & Networks
Networks
HEAS: Human Evolution & Archaeological Sciences
iNEAL: Integrating Neanderthal Legacy
Grants and fellowships
FWF 1000 ideas grant 2021
WWTF Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators 2020
SMBE Young Investigator Travel Award 2020
LaCaixa JuniorLeader postdoctoral fellowship 2019-2022
DFG (German Research Society) postdoctoral fellowship 2016-2018
PhD Stipend 2010-2014 awarded by the Max Planck Society
Rejected grant proposals: MSCA postdoctoral fellowship, EMBO postdoctoral fellowship; DFG Emmy Noether programme, ERC Starting Grant, Volkswagen Foundation Freigeist fellowship
Outreach
Lecture on human evolution (in German) at the NHM, January 2023
Article in University of Vienna magazine (in German), May 2022
Reviewing activity
Reviewing activity for scientific journals: Nature, Science, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Molecular Biology & Evolution, Plos Genetics, Cell Genomics, Science Advances, Genome Research, Genetics, Cell Reports, Communications Biology, Systematic Biology, Genome Biology & Evolution, BioEssays, Frontiers in Genetics, RSOS, Genes, Diversity, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Plos One, Zoological Research, The Leakey Foundation, National Science Center Poland
Other
Wet lab: Molecular biology, cell culture, sequencing technologies
Dry lab: Programming in R and other languages, data analysis and visualization
Secondary: Grant writing, visual design with Inkscape etc.
Language: German (native), English (proficient), French (medium), Spanish (basic)