Team Member Role: Graduate Students

Ms. Linda-Helen Habermann is currently finalizing her BAP-related bachelor project supervised by Prof. Pavel Tarasov in the Palaeontology division of the Institute of Geological Sciences, at Freie Universität Berlin. Her thesis focuses on pollen analysis and pollen-based correlation of two sediment cores from Lake Ochaul in the Upper Lena microregion of Cis-Baikal, covering the past 13,000 years. Since early 2023, she has been employed as a Student Assistant in the BAP-affiliated research project “Lakes and climate of central Eurasia: Ostracod-based [...]

Aleksandra Krikunova recently received her Master's Degree from Saint Petersburg State University and Hamburg University, as a member of the Russian-German Master Program for Polar and Marine Sciences (POMOR). Her Master's Thesis "Postglacial vegetation and climate history of the Northern Lake Onega Region inferred from palynological record of razlomnoe peatbog" was highly regarded by the Russian-German Scientific Committee and rated with the highest grade (1.0 "Excellent"). Aleksandra will start her BAP-related PhD project in January 2022 at the Free University [...]

Ms. Corrie Hyland is a DPhil Candidate at the University of Oxford and she joins the Baikal Archaeology Project under the joint supervision of Drs. Amy Styring, Rick Schulting and Andrzej Weber. Specializing in stable isotope analysis, Corrie will be working to further develop the freshwater reservoir correction methods that refine the microregion chronologies of Lake Baikal. She will be expanding on the use of stable hydrogen and sulfur isotope analysis, as well as applying compound-specific stable carbon and nitrogen [...]

Mr. Ruairidh (Rory) Macleod began working with the BAP in Fall 2019 as a research assistant for Dr. Eske Willerslev, performing labwork for ancient DNA extractions of individuals from cemeteries excavated by the BAP at the Centre for Geogenetics in Denmark. He is set to continue work on the ancient human genomic history of the Lake Baikal region as a graduate student supervised by Drs. Eske Willerslev and Matthew Collins at the University of Cambridge in Fall 2020, with Dr. [...]

Karolina is a bioarchaeologist specialising in isotopic analysis. Within the Baikal Archaeology Project, she focuses on microregional interconnectivity, combining dietary and mobility proxies as a part of her DPhil research project at Oxford University. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Diet reconstruction, Isoscapes, Spatial modelling, F14C

Ms. Jennifer Laughton is a Ph.D. student with the Baikal Archaeology Project under the supervision of Dr. Andrzej Weber. She specializes in biological anthropology and will be conducting research on dental remains from across the Cis-Baikal, with a focus on tooth morphometrics, dental non-metric traits, and principles/ethics of curating human remains. She has previously worked at the Canadian Museum of History, and is a trained archaeologist and a polyglot. Дженнифер - аспирант в Университете Алберты (Эдмонтон). Она по специалностью биологической [...]