Current Group Members and Trainees

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Marta Pina
Hominin Origins Research Group
​Beatriu de Pinós Fellow (Fall 2025-present)
[email protected]

Nicole Torres Tamayo
Hominin Origins Research Group
​Postdoctoral Fellow (Spring 2026-present)
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Jesús Gamarra
Hominin Origins Research Group
​PhD student (supervised by Pina)
​[email protected]

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Ariel Barrera
PhD student through AMNH-CUNY (Fall 2022-present)
[email protected]

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​Recent Trainees

Alessandra Vecino Gazabón
PhD student (Fall 2021-2026)

Nicholas Post
PhD student (Fall 2022-2026)

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Samar Syeda
Postdoctoral Fellow (Summer 2024-2026)
Samar has moved to UChicago for a postdoc.

Deming Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2025)
​Deming is now faculty at Midwestern University!

Christopher Smith
Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2025)
Chris is now faculty at Fairfield University!

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Marine Cazenave
Postdoctoral Fellow (Spring 2022-Winter 2023)
Marine has moved to Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology!

Kelsey Pugh
Postdoctoral Fellow (Spring 2020-2023)
Kelsey is now faculty at OCAD in Toronto!

​Carrie Mongle
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2021)
​Carrie is faculty at Stony Brook University!

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Eva-Merce Fuentes
Research Assistant (Fall 2022-Spring 2024)
Eva left to Washington University for grad school!

Nina St. Hillaire
REU student (Summer 2021)
Enrolled at Harvard University for graduate school starting Fall 2023!

Lucrecia Aguilar
Helen Fellow (2019-2020)
Enrolled at Harvard University for graduate school in Fall 2020!

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