Meet the ICArEHB Team
Coordinating Committee

João Cascalheira
DIRECTOR
I am interested in prehistoric hunter-gatherer adaptations, specifically in how these are related to processes of climate and environmental change

Célia Gonçalves
Adaptations to Coastal environments
Mobility and Settlement, Patterns Spatial Analysis, Predictive Modelling, Geographical Information Systems

Anna Rufà
DYNAMICS OF PALEOLITHIC PEOPLE IN EURASIA
Small prey taphonomy, with special attention on leporids and birds

Hugo Rafael Oliveira
Emergence and Evolution of food producing societies
Plant Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture

Vera Aldeias
History of Archaeological Science
Geoarchaeologist interested in unravelling past human behavior from its sedimentary signatures

Ana Gomes
Prehistoric behavior and dispersals in Africa
Diatom species and their ecology, Paleoenvironmental reconstructions, Geoarchaeology

René Bobe Quinteros
Primate Models for Hominin Evolution
Evolution of African ecosystems and the ecology of human origins
Administration and Strategy

Godefroy Devevey
Science Strategy Officer
Funding, development, strategy and support operation.

Catarina Marques
Administration and Communication
Daily management of the Centre,.Science Communication
Researchers

Alvise Barbieri
Researchers
Geoarchaeology, Geomorphology, reconstruction of past landscapes and environments

Ana Avila de Melo
Researcher
Archaeometallurgy, History of Archaeology

António Valera
researcher
Neolithic and Chalcolithic archaeology, funerary practices

Armando Falcucci
Researcher

Carli Peters
Researcher
ZooMS and palaeoproteomics to study human-animal interactions in the past

Carlos Duarte Simões
researcher
Interactions between past human societies and the environment

Cláudia Costa
researcher
Zooarchaeology and Archaeology from prehistoric complex societies

Eduardo Paixão
researcher
Lithic Technology, use Wear, Residue analysis

Emanuele Cancellieri
researcher
Lithic technologies in arid landscapes

Emily Coco
researcher
Mobility, dispersals, and archaeological record formation using agent-based modeling

Emily Hallinan
researcher
Technology and landscape use in the southern African Stone Age

Erich C. Fisher
researcher
Archaeoinformatics, Africa, Coastal Adaptations

Flora Schilt
researcher
Prehistoric hunter gatherers, pyrotechnology, and archaeological contexts in tropical environments

Frederico Tátá Regala
researcher
Zooarchaeology, Speleology

Gina Buckley
researcher
Prehistoric human mobility and migration through stable and radiogenic isotope analyses and radiocarbon dating

Hussein Kanbar
researcher
Environmental geochemistry

Isaac Oglobin
researcher

Javier Sánchez Martínez
researcher
Lithic technology, diachronic changes in stone tools, Upper Paleolithic

Jeffrey Rose
researcher
Modern human dispersals and desert adaptations

João Marreiros
researcher
Early hominn technological evolution, especially how stone tools were designed

Jonathan Haws
researcher
Human land-use and decision-making as part of a socio-natural process

Jonathan S. Reeves
researcher
Interdisciplinary approaches to the evolution of human behavior

João Luís Cardoso
researcher
History of Archeology, Geoarchaeology, Zooarchaeology

Li Li
researcher
Reconstructing hominin behavior from the lithic record

Lucía Cobo Sánchez
researcher
Hominin subsistence behaviour, taphonomic and spatial analysis of faunal remains

Lucy Evangelista
researcher
Physical Anthropology

Maria Ana Correia
researcher
Study of human beings in a transdisciplinary framework, focusing on the study of the human past as means to understand our present and future

Maria João Martins
researcher
Paleobiology, ecosystems dynamics and evolution

Marina Évora
researcher
Osseous industry, Hunter-Gatherers, Zooarchaeology

May Murungi
researcher
Reconstructing past vegetation cover and past human-environment interactions during the Quaternary in eastern and southern Africa through phytolith analysis

Milena Carvalho
researcher
Reconstructing human ecology during the late Pleistocene in Iberia; Human responses to climatic and environmental change

Nuno Bicho
Researcher and ualg Vice-Rector for Research and culture
Paleolithic and Mesolithic: times of change and transition; and on coastal human adaptations

Patricia Monteiro
researcher
Firewood explotation during Prehistory

Pedro Horta
Researcher
Evolution of hominin adaptation and migration strategies

René Bobe Quinteros
researcher
Evolution of African ecosystems and the ecology of human origins

Ricardo Godinho
researcher
The evolution of skull form and function in fossil hominins and modern humans

Rita Dias
researcher
Zooarchaeology, Ichthyological remains and seasonality studies

Rubén Parrilla-Giráldez
researcher

Sara Rhodes
researcher
Hunter-gatherer archaeology, microvertebrates, taphonomy

Tomos Proffitt
researcher
Emergence, development and variation of the earliest technologies, experimental archaeological and primate archaeological techniques
Associated Researchers

Alejandra Pascual-Garrido
associated researcher
Chimpanzee plant-based material cultures and tool use behaviours

Ana Abrunhosa
associated researcher
Lithic Raw Materials

António Faustino de Carvalho
associated researcher
Mesolithic-Neolithic transition and early Megalithism in Iberia and western Mediterranean

Aurore Val
researcher
Zooarchaeology and field archaeology, prehistoric human/animal interactions

Camille Lesage
Associated researcher
Lithic technology, techno-economy of lithic raw materials

Carolina Mallol
associated researcher
Geoarchaeology, Microstratigraphy

Ceren Kabukcu
associated researcher
Archaeobotany, Palaeoecology, Palaeolithic plant use, Origins of agriculture

Cláudia Umbelino
associated researcher
Past Cultures and Populations

Cristina Veiga-Pires
associated researcher
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Cruz Ferro-Vázquez
associated researcher
Soil science, paleoenvironmental reconstruction

Daniel Garcia Rivero
associated researcher
Evolutionary theoretical and methodological approaches to Late Prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula and the Southwestern Mediterranean

Darren Fa
associated researcher
Palaeoecology and human evolution, especially linked to the exctinction of the Neanderthals

Darya Presnyakova
associated researcher

Delminda Moura
associated researcher
Coastal morphodynamics

Elizabeth Velliky
associated researcher
Prehistoric mineral pigments and their role in cultural, cognitive, symbolic, and technological adaptations

Elodie Freymann
associated researcher

Erella Hovers
associated researcher
Lithics as proxies for organizational decision-making and for cognitive abilites

Juan Gibaja Bao
associated researcher
Lithic Technology

Katarina Almeida-Warren
associated researcher
Archaeology of non-human primates to shed light on the behaviours, technology, and culture of our earliest ancestors

Lukas Friedl
associated researcher
Human evolution, Functional morphology, Bioarcheology

Lynn C. Lewis-Bevan
associated researcher

M. Dores Cruz
associated researcher
African Historical archaeology and Archaeology of the recent past

Maria João Valente
associated researcher
Zooarchaeology, particularly the role of animal resources in ancient human diets

Maria Simón Vallejo
associated researcher
Prehistory and archeology in the south of Iberia

Michael Benedetti
associated researcher
Geomorphology, Quaternary geology, and Paleolithic geoarchaeology

Miguel Cortés Sánchez
associated researcher
Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, Palaeolithic symbolism, Coastal adaptation

Mussa Raja
associated researcher
African archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Study of stone tools, Settlement Patterns

Paul Goldberg
associated researcher
Application of micromorphological techniques to the study of site formation processes at archaeological sites

Pedro Gonçalves
associated researcher
Geoarchaeology, Landscape evolution

Rosalind Gillis
associated researcher
Prehistoric animal husbandry practices, adaptations of European livestock management systems to novel environments

Rui Machado
associated researcher
Bioinformatics, big data analysis and molecular biology

Ruth Taylor
associated researcher
Ceramic Analysis (Archaeology), Petrology of Ceramics and Stone Artifacts, Ceramic Petrography

Sara Cura
associated researcher
Relation of Prehistory with society, Science Communication and History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

Shannon McPherron
associated researcher
Human evolution from the origins of stone tool use to the spread of Homo sapiens

Sol Sánchez-Dehesa Galán
associated researcher
Lithic technology, knapping learning processes, technical diversity of early hominin

Susana Carvalho
associated researcher
Hominin origins & adaptations through primatology, archaeology & paleoanthropology; Equal Milestone Science

Tiina Manne
associated researcher
Analyses of past diets to understand people’s responses to large-scale climate, environmental and cultural change

Xavier Terradas
associated researcher
Socioeconomic strategies throughout prehistoric times

William Chase Murphree
associated researcher
Sedimentary signature for late Neanderthal and Modern Human fire use in late Pleistocene Europe
Ph.D. Students

Adriana Leite
Ph.D. Student
Ancient consumption patterns

Agata Gaszka
Ph.D. Student
Lithic technologies and its role in understanding the technological emergence and development of our earliest ancestors

Ana Catarina Basilio
Ph.D. Student
Chalcolithic-Bronze Age transition

Anastasia Eleftheriadou
Ph.D. Student
Computational archaeology, machine learning, image analysis, GIS, spatial analysis

Beatriz Pinto
Ph.D. Student
Zooarqueology, invertebrates remains

Bruno Gambinhas Leal
Ph.D. Student
Remote Sensing, particularly Aerial Archaeology, Geophysics and multispectral imagery

Catarina Santos Coelho
Ph.D. Student
Primatology, ethology and human evolution

Cláudia Relvado
Ph.D. Student
Diet, health and mobility in Portuguese Neolithic / Chalcolithic populations

Daniel Martins
Ph.D. Student
Paleoenvironmental changes and their impact on human adaptation and behaviour through geoarchaeology and palaeobotany

Daniela Maio
PH.D. Student
Analysis of mobility and settlement patterns during Middle and Upper Paleolithic using Geographic Information System (GIS)

Degsew Zerihun
Ph.D. Student
Plant and Human Culture, Paleobotany

Elena Skosey-LaLonde
PH.D. Student
Experimental biogeochemical and ethnohistorical approaches to interpret coastal environment and social resilience in Holocene southeastern Africa and the western Indian Ocean World

Emanuela Rabajoli
Ph.D. Student
Ethology, Behavioural Ecology, Evolutionary behaviour

Guillermo Alfonso Alzate
Ph.D. Student
Geoarchaeologist exploring the behavior and interactions between human groups and the environment during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition

Helena Reis
Ph.D. Student
Lithic analysis, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods

Humphrey Nyambiya
Ph.D. Student
Archaeozoology, Environmental Archaeology, Palaeoproteomics

İnci Nurgül Özdoğru
Ph.D. Student
Reconstructing paleoclimate and past human-environment interactions

Joana Belmiro
Ph.D. Student
Upper Paleolithic, Lithics

João Varela
PH.D. Student
Archaeology of the Paleolithic and Neolithic

Jovan Galfi
Ph.D. Student
Hunter-gatherer archaeology, Lithic technology

Leonor Filipe
Ph.D.Student
Zooarcheology and Mesolithic

Miguel Soares Remiseiro
Ph.D. Student
Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Iberia using micromorphological and geoarchaeological methods

Nolan Ferar
Ph.D. Student
Evolution of lithic technology and knapping behaviors, and how these can shed light on cultural and cognitive evolution in the hominin lineage

Nompumelelo
Maringa
Ph.D. Student
Reconstructing the environment from thousands of years ago with the use of animal fossils recovered from archaeological cave sites

Osama Samawi
Ph.D. Student
Lithic technologies and past adaptive strategies by hunter-gatherers

Osman Karrar
Ph.D. Student
Technology, palaeogeography and landscape use in the Sudanese Stone Age

Roxane Matias
Ph.D. Student
Anthracology, Archaeobotany

Sarah Marie Foley
PH.D. Student
Hominin interactions with their environment

Sofia Kouki
PH.D. Student
Computational methods for micromorphological analysis

Takalani Dubayi
PH.D. Student

Valentina Lubrano
Ph.D. Student
Zooarchaeology and taphonomy to provide new data to discover Neanderthal behaviour

Youssef Djellal
Ph.D. Student
Lithic technology, use-wear analysis on stone tools
Master Students

Alexandre Coelho Mateus
Master Student
Environmental changes on aquatic coastal systems in Mozambique

Chafim Belson Braga
Master Student
Human evolution and adaptation

Inês Branco Serrano
Master Student
Social Zooarchaeology and Environmental Archaeology

Judite Artur Nhanombe
Master Student
Reconstitution of paleoenvironment

Matilde Pereira Rodrigues
Master Student
Zooarchaeology, Funerary Archaeology, Human Evolution

Miguel Costa
Master Student
Funerary remains and prehistoric mandibles from Central Europe

Milton Chirindza
Master Student
Paleoenvironment, Analysis of biomarkers and geochemistry

Stela Gujamo
Master Student
Archaeological heritage
Postgraduate Students

Alex Martín
Postgraduate Student
Bioarchaeology and Social Archaeology of Populations from the European Recent Prehistory

Patrícia Simão
Postgraduate Student
Anthropology, Human Evolution and Prehistoric Archaeology
Associated Students

André Santana
Associated Student
Geoarchaeology, Microarchaeology, Pyrotechnology

David Nora
Associated Student
Paleolithic archaeology, understanding how different raw materials influence human decision-making

Grace Ellis
Associated Student
Landscape archaeology, ancient land use practices, and human-environment interactions in the precolumbian tropics and paleolithic Portugal

Jacinto Mathe
Associated Student
Intersection of Human Evolution, Osteology, Taphonomy, and Conservation Paleobiology

João Coelho
Associated Student
Geospatial Paleontology; Paleoecology, and the Miocene of Gorongosa

Leandro Infantini
Associated Student
Underwater Archaeology and Geographic Information System in Archaeology (GIS)

Megan Beardmore-Herd
Associated Student
Primatology, behavioural ecology, human evolution

Rassina Farassi
Associated Student

Sofia Fonseca
Associated Student
African Archaeology, Cultural cooperation, Heritage

Sophie Berdugo
Associated Student
Social learning of stone tool use in chimpanzees to shed light on cultural transmission in our early human ancestors
Technical Support

Lino André
Project Admin
