Jennifer Leichliter
Curriculum Vitae
| 2021 – Present | Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Emmy Noether Group for Hominin Meat Consumption at the Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany. The Onset and Evolution of Early Hominin Meat Consumption (HoMeCo) – Southern African early hominins, their tropic position and dietary behavior | 
| 2021 – Present | Guest Researcher in the Department Applied and Analytical Paleontology, Institute of Geosciences at Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU), Mainz, Germany. | 
| 2018 – 2021 | Visiting Scientist in the Department of Human Evolution, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany (Director: Prof. Dr. Jean-Jacques Hublin) | 
| 2019 – 2021 | Visiting Scientist in the Climate Geochemistry Department, Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany (Group Leader: Dr. A. Martínez-García) | 
| 2018 – 2021 | Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department Applied and Analytical Paleontology, Institute of Geosciences at Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU), Mainz, Germany. As part of the ERC-funded project Investigating the origins of Vertebrate Herbivory granted to Prof. Thomas Tütken | 
| 2012 – 2018 | PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado U.S.A. Doctoral Project Early Hominin Environments in Southern Africa: A Micromammalian Perspective. Supervisors: Dr. Matt Sponheimer | 
| 2009 - 2011 | Master’s candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado U.S.A. | 
| 2004 – 2008 | Undergraduate education, Anthropology (Magna cum laude; GPA 4.0), Art Studio (minor), Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado U.S.A. |