Curriculum Vitae

Wallenberg Academy Fellow (WAF), leading a research project focusing on deep-time ancient DNA from terrestrial and marine sediments

• • Department of Geological Sciences and Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm University

Associate Professor (Førsteamanuensis), with research focusing on ancient DNA, paleontology, and sediments

• • University Museum, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway

Senior Researcher (Forsker II) in Environmental Palaeogenomics

• • University Museum, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway

  • Externally funded through the Research Council of Norway (PI: Prof. Inger Alsos)

Postdoc in Paleogenomics

• • Paleogenomics lab (PGL), University of California Santa Cruz, USA

  • Advisor: Prof. Beth Shapiro

PhD in Molecular Palaeobiology

• • Laboratory of Molecular Palaeobiology (LaMP), Royal Holloway, University of London, UK (now based at the Natural History Museum, London, UK)

  • Supervisors: Prof. Ian Barnes, Prof. Scott Elias

Honorary Researcher

• • Palaeobiology and Biodiversity Research Group, University of Bristol, UK

MSc in Palaeobiology, with Distinction

• • Palaeobiology and Biodiversity Research Group, University of Bristol, UK

  • Supervisors: Prof. Mike Benton, Dr. Marcello Ruta, Dr. James Tarver

BSc in Biology, 2.i 

• • University of Sheffield, UK

  • Supervisors: Prof. Charles Wellman, Prof. David Beerling

Old Crow (Yukon Territory, Canada): Total of 11 days spent retrieving and collecting subfossil megafaunal remains and sediments from key sites along the Old Crow and Porcupine Rivers.

Klondike Goldfields (Yukon Territory, Canada): Three field seasons for a total of 8 days spent retrieving and collecting subfossil megafaunal remains (2016, 2022, 2023) and sediments (2023) directly from permafrost.

• • Received two days of Arctic Field Training in preparation for first field season (2016).

European Alps (Austria, Italy, France): One month spent coring lake sediments in summer conditions.

• • Expedition co-organiser.

Troms and Finnmark (Northern Norway): Three weeks spent coring lake sediments in winter (ice cover) conditions.

Saint Paul Island (Pribilofs, Alaska, USA): Eleven days spent on an island in the Bering Sea collecting paleontological specimens, and modern plant and soil material.

LacCore (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA): Three days spent sampling a lake sediment core from Saint Paul Island for ancient DNA.

Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM) (Stockholm, Sweden): Two days were spent collecting Palaearctic beetle samples for DNA analysis.

• • Read an overview of this visit here.

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids & Nematodes (CNC) (Ottawa, Canada): Three days were spent collecting Nearctic beetle samples for DNA analysis.

Danum Valley Field Centre (Sabah, Malaysian Borneo): Ten days spent on a Tropical Rainforest Field Course.

Abisko Scientific Research Station (northern Sweden): Ten days spent on an Arctic Ecosystems Field Course.

International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology - active

Nordic Union for Quaternary Research (NORDQUA) - active

Sedimentary Ancient DNA scientific society - active

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) - active

American Geophysical Union (AGU) - active

Irish Quaternary Association (IQUA)

Quaternary Research Association (QRA)

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP)

Society for Experimental Biology (SEB)

Ecological Society of America (ESA)

American Genetic Association (AGA)

Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB)

The Genetics Society

Palaeontological Association (PalAss)

Journal peer reviewer for Science, Nature, PNAS, Current Biology, PLoS Biology, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Nature Human Behaviour, eLife, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Communications Biology, Scientific Reports, Bioinformatics, Molecular Ecology Resources, Biodiversity and Conservation, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Environmental DNA, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, RNA, PLoS One, BMC Genetics.

• • My Publons profile is here.

Grant peer reviewer for the LMU Research Fellowship Program, and the ForBio: MSCA-IF Training Program.

Committee member for the departmental advisory board, University Museum, UiT.

Co-organizer of the LERN 2010 student conference

Co-organizer of an academic debate on epigenetics: ‘Epigenetic inheritance compels an extension of the Modern Synthesis’

Royal Holloway rep. for the London Evolutionary Research Network

Events co-ordinator for the London Evolutionary Research Network

PhD rep. for the School Board (School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London)

MSc rep. for the Student-Staff Committee (Earth Sciences, University of Bristol)

1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics (ICP) 2026 (Stockholm University, Sweden) -- forthcoming

ISBA11 (11th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology) (University of Turin, Italy) -- forthcoming

2nd Sedimentary ancient DNA society biennial meeting (UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway)

Nobel Symposia meeting on Palaeogenomics: charting the future of ancient DNA (Villa Aske, Stockholm, Sweden)

AGU Fall Meeting (American Geophysical Union) (Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington DC, USA)

The Bolin Days 2024 (Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Sweden)

SciLifeLab symposium: Advancing archaeology with multi-disciplinary analysis (Virtual, Uppsala University, Sweden)

SMBE 2024 (Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution) (Convention Center, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico)

Ancient Biomolecules of Plants, Animals, and Microbes (Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK)

5th International PalaeoArc Conference  (Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden)

PAGXXXI (31st Plant and Animal Genome conference) (Town and Country Resort, San Diego, CA, USA)

NGWM 36 (36th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting) (Gothia Towers, Gothenburg, Sweden)

SciLifeLab Science Summit 2023: Genomics of Biodiversity and Evolution (Stockholm University, Sweden)

ISBA10 (Tenth International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology) (Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia)

INQUA (21st International Union for Quaternary Research) (University Town, Rome, Italy)

1st Sedimentary ancient DNA symposium (Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam, Germany)

Gästabudet symposium (Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden)

PAGXXX (30th Plant and Animal Genome conference) (Town and Country Resort, San Diego, CA, USA)

SciLifeLab: Ancient DNA symposium (Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden)

PolarForum 2022 (Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden)

The Bolin Days 2022 (Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Sweden)

Bloodbath 2022 (Torvtorp Research Station, Stockholm University, Sweden)

WBF2022 (World Biodiversity Forum) (Congress Center, Davos, Switzerland)

AmQUA (27th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association) (The Pyle Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Sedimentary ancient DNA mini-symposium 'Recovering DNA from sedimentary archives' (SLU, Uppsala, Sweden)

Biodiversity Genomics 2021 (Virtual, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK)

SPAAM3 (Standards, precautions, and advances in ancient metagenomics) workshop (Virtual, Worldwide)

SMBEv 2021 (Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution) (Virtual,  Worldwide)

ISBA9 (Ninth International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology) (Virtual, Toulouse, France)

ForBio Research School in Biosystematics Annual Meeting (Virtual, University of Oslo, Norway)

Biodiversity Genomics 2020 (Virtual, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK)

SPAAM2 (Standards, precautions, and advances in ancient metagenomics) workshop (Virtual, Toulouse, France)

International Humboldt Day: Using environmental DNA to test biogeographical hypotheses (Virtual, UK/Europe)

AmQUA (26th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association) (Virtual, University of Washington, WA, USA)

AGU Fall Meeting (American Geophysical Union) (Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA)

Unlocking the past: Ancient DNA symposium (University Biomedical Centre, Uppsala, Sweden)

INQUA (20th International Union for Quaternary Research) (Convention Centre, Dublin, Ireland)

SMBE 2019 (Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution) (Manchester Central, Manchester, UK)

iBoL (8th International Barcode of Life conference) (Clarion Hotel, Trondheim, Norway)

The past is a foreign country: how much can the fossil record actually inform conservation? (Royal Society, London, UK)

AEA (39th Association of Environmental Archaeology conference) (Moesgaard Museum, Århus, Denmark)

ISBA8 (Eighth International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology) (Jena, Germany)

SEB (Annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology) (Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden)

SVP (76th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology) (Grand America Hotel, Salt Lake City, UT, USA)

ESA (Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America) (Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)

PAGXXIV (24th Plant and Animal Genome conference) (Town and Country Resort, San Diego, CA, USA)

Genome 10k (Chaminade Resort, Santa Cruz, CA, USA)

PAGXXIII (23rd Plant and Animal Genome conference) (Town and Country Resort, San Diego, CA, USA)

SVP (73rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology) (Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA)

CanQUA (16th Biennial Meeting of the Canadian Quaternary Association) (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)

BAPG IX (9th Bay Area Population Genomics Conference) (University of California Berkeley, USA)

Royal Entomological Society: Genomics Special Interest Group (University of Cambridge, UK)

Extinction: the Quaternary perspective (One day symposium, NHM, London, UK)

Quaternary Research Association Postgraduate Symposium (University of Aberdeen, UK)

Russell Coope Memorial Symposium (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

Progressive Palaeontology (University of Cambridge, UK)

aDNA aWaY DaY (University of Durham, UK)

SystAss (8th Biennial Conference of the Systematics Association) (Queens University Belfast, UK)

Evolutionary Genetics and Environmental Change (MEET Symposium, NRM, Stockholm, Sweden)

Progressive Palaeontology (University of Leicester, UK)

Integrating ecology into macroevolutionary research (CEE symposium, ZSL, London, UK)

PalAss (54th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association) (University of Ghent, Belgium)

LERN (8th Annual London Evolutionary Research Network student conference) (University College London, UK)

Biodiversity in a changing world (Royal Society, London, UK)

ISBA4 (Fourth International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology) (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

IPC3 (Third International Palaeontological Congress) (NHM/Imperial College/Royal Geographical Society, London, UK)

QUAVER (QUAternary VERtebrates) (One day symposium, NHM, London, UK)

Progressive Palaeontology (University of Bristol, UK)

PalAss (The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association) (University of Birmingham, UK)

Genetics and the causes of evolution (Royal Society, London, UK)

Ancient DNA and evolution (CEE symposium, NHM, London, UK)

Progressive Palaeontology (University of Birmingham, UK)

Progressive Palaeontology (University of Manchester, UK)