Teaching and seminars

Co-supervision

PhD students: 

• Marianna Fusco (Rome La Sapienza, 2023-current)
• Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias (University of Zurich, 2021-current)
• Zhe Xue (University of Cambridge, 2020-current)
• Eleanor Miller (University of Cambridge, 2018-19): A new explanation for the genetic structure of the Yellow Warbler; Genetics and ecology do not agree in reconstructing how birds reacted to past climate changes
  

Master projects: 

• Sophie Dennis (Queen Mary University, Master, 2021-current)
• Daniele Alessandro Esposito (Ferrara, Master, 2015) The female ancestor’s tale: Long‐term matrilineal continuity in a nonisolated region of Tuscany

Part II projects: 

• Sidney Leedham (Cambridge, Part II, 2022): Low ecological differentiation in leopard subspecies)
• Megan McGrory (Cambridge, Part II, 2022)

Research Assistants: 

• Miranda Johnstone (Cambridge, 2021-2022)

Teaching

2023:
Instructor for the “Mapping ancient Africa workshop”(Rome, July 2023) organised by the Mapping Ancient Africa project just before the INQUA 2023 Rome congress.
Paper “Ancient Biomolecules”, University of Cambridge (Matthew Collins and Tamsin O’Connell). Contributed two lectures: “Climate and population genetics”; “The genetics of horse domestication”

2022:
Module “Palaeolithic archaeology” (MSc/MA level), La Sapienza University of Rome (Enza Spinapolice). Contributed one seminar: “La ricetta dell’interdisciplinarietà”

2013:
Module “Biological anthropology” (MSc/MA level) University College London (Andrea Migliano). Contributed one lecture: “Horse domestication from a genetic point of view”

2011:
PhD school in Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (Joachim Burger)
Contributed one seminar: “Theory and practical applications of coalescent analyses” 

2009-2011:
Module “Population genetics” (MSc/MA level) Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz (Barbara Bramanti): Contributed one lecture “Inferring demographic history from genetic data”

2006-2008:
Module “Methods for archaeological research” (BSc/BA/MSc/MA) University of Ferrara (Antonio Guerreschi). Tutor for the practicals and during fieldwork (Palaeolithic excavation, Riparo Tagliente)

TRAINING IN INCLUSIVE TEACHING

“Inclusive teaching workshop”, Zoology Department, University of Cambridge. 25^th April 2022; 20^th September 2021

Seminars

• lntegrating palaeoclimate into the study of the past. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Seminar Series, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge (11th Nov 2022)
• Integrating palaeoclimate into population genomics. Uppsala-Hacettepe Palaeogenetics and Population Genetics (UH PalaeoPopGen) Webinars (28th October 2022)
• The palaeoecology of survival and extinction. Department Day, Zoology Department, University of Cambridge (1st July 2022)
• How to integrate Anthropology in (academic) careers within other disciplines. Evolutionary Anthropology Seminar, University College London (26th October 2021)
• Following the niche: reconstructing 32,000 years of niche dynamics in four European ungulate species. Daniel Bradley’s lab Journal Club talk, University College Dublin (17th December 2020)
• Climate change is not a game… but what if it was? Humanities Seminar Series, Darwin College, Cambridge (1st December 2020)
• Palaeoclimate as a virtual lab. Department Day, Zoology Department, University of Cambridge (18th June 2020)
• Species distribution through time and other stories… Zoology Postdoc Summer Seminar Series, Zoology Department, University of Cambridge (4th September 2019)