positions

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Paleolithic Research Department, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz, Germany.

2009 - present: 

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Institute of Pre- and Protohistory, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.

education

2002–2008

 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Ph. D. in Anthropology.

              Thesis: “Ontogenetic scaling in stone tools and its application to European Middle Paleolithic systematics,” under the supervision of Prof. H. L. Dibble.

2005

Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Complex Systems Summer School.

2001-2002

 St John’s College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. May 2003,  M.Phil. in Archaeology (with distinction).

              Thesis: “The Initial Upper Palaeolithic at Ksar Akil (Lebanon) and  Haua Fteah (Libya)”, under the supervision of Prof. P. A. Mellars.

1997-2001

 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. June 2001, A. B. in Anthropology, magna cum laude.

              Thesis: “The Initial Upper Palaeolithic at Ksar Akil (Lebanon) – a techno-typological analysis of levels XXV – XVIII,” under the supervision of Prof.  O. Bar-Yosef.

Academic Distinctions and Fellowships

2007 - 2008. Louis J. Kolb Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania.

2006 - 2007. School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania.

2002 – 2006. William Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania.

2001. Senior Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota Chapter of Massachusetts. 

1998-2001. John Harvard Scholarship for academic excellence (Group I).

2000. Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

2000. Harvard College Research Program Grant for summer research in French Polynesia.

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