Katerina Harvati Explained

Katerina Harvati
Native Name:Κατερίνα Χαρβάτη
Native Name Lang:el
Nationality:Greek
Fields:Paleoanthropology
Workplaces:University of Tübingen
Alma Mater:Columbia College (B.A.)
Hunter College (M.A.)
CUNY Graduate Center (PhD)
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Known For:Identification of the remains of the earliest known Homo sapiens outside of Africa in the Apidima Cave, Greece

Katerina Harvati (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Κατερίνα Χαρβάτη; born 1970 in Athens) is a Greek paleoanthropologist and expert in human evolution. She specializes in the broad application of 3-D geometric morphometric and virtual anthropology methods to paleoanthropology. Since 2009, she is full professor and director of Paleoanthropology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. From 2020 to 2023 she was Director of the Institute for Archaeological Sciences and since 2023 she is Director of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen.[1]

Life

Harvati is a graduate of Columbia College, New York, where she earned a B.A. in Anthropology 1994 (summa cum laude).[2] [3] Four years later, she received her master's degree in Anthropology at Hunter College, City University of New York. After having been awarded with her Ph.D. at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2001[4] she worked as a tenure-track assistant professor at New York University. From 2004 to 2009, she was senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology[5] in Leipzig, Germany. In 2005, she also became also adjunct associate professor at the City University of New York Graduate School.[6] In 2009 she was appointed full professor at the University of Tübingen and director of Paleoanthropology.

In 2010, she was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her contributions to Paleoanthropology.[7] In 2014 she was awarded the Research Award of the State Baden-Württemberg, and in 2021 the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation, the highest academic recognition in Germany. She was elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2022.[8]

Harvati is married to the Greek biotechnology executive Elias Papatheodorou.[9] They have two children.

Research

Harvati´s research focuses on primate and human evolution as well as on evolutionary theory, with emphasis on the paleobiology of Pleistocene humans and on modern human origins. She has conducted fieldwork in different parts of Europe and Africa and contributed largely to the understanding of the relationship of morphological variability to population history and the environment. Harvati has led recent breakthroughs in the understanding of modern human origins and Neanderthal behavior. Her recent work on the fossil human remains from Apidima Cave, Southern Greece, pushed back the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe by more than 150 thousand years, showing an earlier and much more geographically widespread early modern human dispersal than was previously known (Harvati et al. 2019 Nature). This work was listed as one of the most important discoveries of the year by The Guardian,[10] Discover Magazine[11] and LiveScience,[12] as well as one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the decade by Gizmodo.[13] She also led research overthrowing long held assumptions about increased levels of violence and traumatic injuries relative to modern humans (Beier et al. 2018) and pioneered work exploring the effects of hybridization on the early modern human cranial phenotype (Harvati and Ackermann 2022). Other contributions include the assessment of the Neanderthal species status (Harvati et al. 2004 PNAS), the identification of an early modern human in Southern Africa (Grine et al. 2007 Science; a publication that TIME magazine ranked as one out of Top Ten discoveries of the year[14]); and the demonstration that modern humans evolved much earlier than previously thought, around 300,000 years ago in Morocco (Hublin et al. 2017, Nature). Finally, Harvati's work has spearheaded paleolithic and paleoanthropological research in South-East Europe (Harvati and Roskandic 2016). She has received three European Research Council grants, an ERC Starting Grant in 2011, an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016[15] and an ERC Advanced Grant in 2021.[16] Together with G. Jäger, she heads a Centre for Advanced Studies on linguistic, cultural and biological trajectories of the human past since 2015.[17]

Awards and distinctions

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the University of Tübingen . 2023-05-15 . uni-tuebingen.de.
  2. Web site: Harvati. Katerina. 2021. Profile at AcademiaNet. 2021-04-06. academia-net.org.
  3. Web site: 2019-07-15. AitN: July 15, 2019. 2022-01-26. Columbia College Today. en.
  4. Web site: Fall 2002 Colloquia at CUNY Graduate Center . gc.cuny.edu . 2017-07-17.
  5. Web site: News release NYU 2004 . nyu.edu . 2017-07-17.
  6. Web site: New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP) . gc.cuny.edu . 2017-07-17.
  7. Web site: News AAAS 2009 . aaas.org . 2017-07-17.
  8. Web site: National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . Leopoldina.org.
  9. Web site: Management Genkyotex . genkyotex.com . 2017-07-17.
  10. News: The science stories that shaped 2019. Betts. Richard. 2019-12-22. The Observer. 2020-02-03. Czerski. Helen. en-GB. 0029-7712. Butterworth. Jon. Mills. Anne. Rutherford. Adam. Lowell-Badge. Robin. Islam. Saiful. Jones. Julia. Scott. Sophie.
  11. Web site: Scientists Find the Oldest Human Skull Outside of Africa. Discover Magazine. en. 2020-02-03.
  12. Web site: The 10 Biggest Archaeology Discoveries of 2019. Contributor 2019-12-26T12:00:00Z. Owen Jarus-Live Science. livescience.com. 26 December 2019. en. 2020-02-03.
  13. Web site: How This Decade of Archaeology Changed What We Know About Human Origins. Gizmodo. 29 October 2019 . en-US. 2020-02-03.
  14. Top 10 Everything of 2007 – TIME. Mahr. Krista. 2007-12-09. Time. 2020-02-03. en-US. 0040-781X.
  15. Web site: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/13002?tx_ttnews[tt_news=39402 Press release of the University of Tübingen 2016 ]. uni-tuebingen.de . 2017-07-17.
  16. Web site: Attempto online . 2023-05-23 . University of Tübingen.
  17. Web site: Curriculum Vitae . www.wordsandbones.uni-tuebingen.de/ . 2017-07-17.
  18. Web site: News Article 2009 . helleniccomserve.com . 2017-07-17.
  19. Web site: Press Release 2014 . mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de . 29 October 2014 . 2017-07-17.
  20. Web site: Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou. 2021-04-06. www.dfg.de. en.

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