cecilia.padilla-iglesias@uni-tuebingen.de or cp654@cam.ac.uk

Opportunities

Opportunities

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Come join the GPS Lab!

I am always interested in hearing from curious and motivated PhD students and postdocs who want to explore questions about human population dynamics and evolution, using creative and interdisciplinary methods.

Research in the lab focuses on topics such as what drives human population dynamics, how climate change shaped interactions within and between human populations, the consequences of inter-species interactions for our genome, culture, and morphology, how humans adapted to such a wide range of ecosystems, and how traces of past behaviour can be recovered from the archaeological record.

If your ideas align with those of the lab, please send me an email to discuss possibilities. I am always happy to hear from prospective students and postdocs. Specific PhD and postdoctoral opportunities will also be advertised soon.

Field course in Kenya

In collaboration with the organization Biomas, and Olympia Campbell, I'm organising a two week field course in Kenya called: "Socio-ecology of hunter-gatherer and nomadic populations in a changing world". The primary goal is to expose students to the value of conducting fieldwork in evolutionary and behavioural ecology or any other aspect of biological anthropology among societies living nomadic lifestyles or that have only recently transitioned to sedentism.

Students will be introduced to key research questions and themes that can be explored in collaboration with communities living in different geographical and ecological regions in Kenya, as well as the methodologies used to conduct such research in an ethical and rigorous manner.

We are planning the first edition to take place in summer 2026 - so stay tuned for news!