Principal investigator
Group leader
Dr. Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias
Independent Junior Research Group LeaderCecilia is interested on how ecological and social environments shape the ways humans and other hominins live, and how this diversity has shaped our genetic, biological and cultural makeup. She combines population genetics, computational modelling, archaeology and fieldwork with hunter-gatherer communities, mainly in Central Africa.
She is General Editor of the journal Hunter Gatherer Research.
Career
- Since April 2026 Independent Junior Research Group Leader, Genotype-Phenotype Interactions Human Origins Cluster of Excellence, University of Tübingen
- October 2024 – March 2026 Alan Wilson Research Fellow Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
- March 2020 – May 2024 PhD, Human Evolutionary Ecology Group Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zürich.
- September 2018 – August 2019 Research MPhil in Biological Anthropological Sciences Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
- September 2015 – June 2018 BSc Human Sciences, First Class Honours University College London.
