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We are very happy to celebrate the achievements of our HEAS PhD candidates. In the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology alone we have had three defenses in the past few months with one more due to take place in the coming months.
Constanze Schattke is currently in the last stages and wrapping up her PhD, aiming for her defense to take place later this year/ summer. It is about violence in osteological human remains collections in museums. Supervisors are Sabine Eggers (NHM Wien) and Harald Wilfing (Uni Wien).
Victoria Oberreiter’s defense was on Dec 18th and the title of her thesis is „Mineralogical Preservation of the Human Biome from the Depth of Time“, supervised by Ron Pinhasi and Thomas Rattei.
Dr Oberreiter is currently working at the Genetics Lab at VetMed having previously hosted and produced the HEAS Podcast.
Petra Šimková defended her theis on the 21st October 2024. The title of her thesis was Morphological variation and covariation in the human postcanine dentition. Her supervisor was Gerhard Weber.
Dr Šimková is now working on an FWF Project on 3D morphology of human permanent and deciduous dentition
Brina Zagorc ’s defense was on the 7th January 2025 and her thesis title was: Tracing Life in Antiquity and Early Medieval Times: Paleogenomics, Dietary Stable Isotopes and Bioarchaeological Approaches in Central European Populations
Her supervisors were Ron Pinhasi and Maria Ivanova-Bieg
Dr Zagorc just started a postdoc/researcher position as a bioarchaeologist at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts at the Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies. She will work on the ERC project STONE.