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Research Professor at the National Research Center on Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain. He is a specialist in paleoanthropology, particularly in the study of dentition. Since 1991 he has been co-director of the investigations and excavations of the Sierra de Atapuerca archaeological and paleontological sites, Spain.

Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Queensland, and is an Affiliated Researcher at the University of Calgary and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Research Professor at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) research centre. He is a leading scientist in Europe on paleogenetics, and one of the few experts in the field that has been active since the mid-nineties. His research covers several lines, among which the genomic analysis of some extinct species, the analysis of human populations of the past -including archaic hominins such as Neandertals- and the retrieval of ancient pathogens.