Christine ADONGO PhD Student INSHS, UMR 8177 EHESS-IIAC, Paris adongoc[at]gmail.com Personal page Christine Adongo is currently an early stage researcher doing PhD at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS – Paris), and a member of Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Anthropologie du Contemporaire (IIAC). She attained both her bachelors and Masters degrees in Environmental science at…
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Hugo ALBAREDES PhD Student INSU, UMR 5805 EPOC, University of Bordeaux hugo.albaredes[at]u-bordeaux.fr Personal page My PhD research is about finding and dating cryptotephras in marine sediment cores around the Horn of Africa, over the last million years. The aims are : to provide a tephrostratigraphic framework, and to correlate these tephras with tuffs from the…
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Gettie Yared ASSEFA PhD Student INEE, UMR 5199 PACEA, Université de Bordeaux yaredsefa[at]gmail.com Currently working as curator at the National Museum of Ethiopia in paleoanthropology, in Addis Ababa, and PhD student in PACEA lab in Bordeaux for African hominin fossils study, especially dental material. Expertises / Field to study Paleoanthropology Countries of activity in the…
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Doris BARBONI CNRS Researcher INSU, UMR 7330 CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence barboni[at]cerege.fr Personal page I study fossil pollen and phytoliths as paleobotanical markers of past vegetation in order to reconstruct paleovegetations associated with Mio-Pliocene and Pleistocene hominins in Central and East Africa. I am interested in the interactions between plants, vegetation and present-day climate in the tropics,…
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Amélie BEAUDET CNRS Junior professor INEE, UMR 7262 PALEVOPRIM, University of Poitiers beaudet.amelie[at]gmail.com Personal page Expertises / Field to study Evolution Paleoanthropology Paleontology Countries of activity in the Rift Bostwana Malawi Mozambique GDR Rift Research theme The Rift heritages Training / Education Search for GDR Rift members by Institute / Laboratory / Other Expertises /…
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Tomas Getachew BEDANE PhD Student INEE, UMR 7262 PALEVOPRIM, Université de Poitiers tomas.getachew.bedane[at]univ-poitiers.fr Personal page Currently, I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Poitiers. My research interest focuses in exploring the relationships between morphology and dietary behavior of megaherbivores (proboscidean; elephants, and their relatives) revealed from hominid bearing sites of the Afar Rift…
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Guillaume BLANC Assistant Professor INSHS, UR 7468, Tempora Université de Rennes 2 guillaume_blanc[at]hotmail.fr Personal page Expertises / Field of study History Countries of activity in the Rift Ethiopia GDR Rift Research theme The Rift heritages Natural resources Search for GDR Rift members by Institute / Laboratory / Other Expertises / Field of study Countries of…
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Alicia BLASI-TOCCACCELI Postdoctoral researcher Glendal campus, Midwestern University, USA ablasi[at]midwestern.edu Personal page I study functional anatomy of plio-pleistocene hominins’ shoulder with biomecanical modeling methods. Notably, I work with Omo Group Research Expedition from the lower Omo Valley. Expertises / Field to study Modeling Paleoanthropology Countries of activity in the Rift Ethiopia GDR Rift Research theme…
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Cécile BLONDEL Assistant Professor INEE, UMR 7262 PALEVOPRIM, Université de Poitiers cecile.blondel[at]univ-poitiers.fr Personal page Expertises / Field to study Paleoecology Paleoenvironment Paleontology Countries of activity in the Rift Ethiopia GDR Rift Research theme The Rift heritages Search for GDR Rift members by Institute / Laboratory / Other Expertises / Field of study Countries of activity…
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Xavier BOËS Researcher INEE, UMR 7194 INHP, Musée de l’Homme, Paris xavier.boes[at]inrap.fr Personal page I am a limnogeologist based at the Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Preventives (National Institute of Preventative Archaeological Research, or INRAP) in Lyon, France. Prior to joining the WTAP in 2010 and refocusing my work on the East African Rift System…
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