Jennifer Leichliter

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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.

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