Niespolo Lab, Princeton University

Welcome!

I combine field work with applications in isotope geochemistry to assess correlations of local and global environmental changes to evolution and adaptation.

I am an Assistant Professor at Princeton University in the Department of Geosciences. I am also an Affiliated Faculty at the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) and a Research Associate at the Human Evolution Research Institute (HERI). I recently completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences.

I am looking for students and post-docs to join my group: please click here for some details on how to contact me.

For interested researchers: I am setting up a Uranium-series geochronology lab at Princeton University. Please contact me if you are interested in collaborating!

For more on the science of my past and current work, please see the research tabs.

Updates

October 2022: Our paper on the Liri basin glacial deposits is out in Nature: Scientific Reports! See here for the open access link.

July-August 2022: The Niespolo lab has installed an Agilent 8900 QQQ ICP-MS and a ESL NWR ImageGEO193 excimer laser ablation system. Stay tuned for photos and details on research plans of these instruments.

February 2022: Our paper on the chronology, archaeology, and paleoclimatic context of the deepest deposits at a Middle Stone Age site in South Africa was published in Nature: Ecology and Evolution: click here to view the article!

December 2021: Our paper on geochronology of the Middle Awash (Ethiopia) Pleistocene deposits are in press at PNAS: click here for the open-access article!