Alissa Mittnik
Group leader
Department of Archaeogenetics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 206
e-mail:
alissa_mittnik@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research focus
- Integrative archaeoscientific approaches to the reconstruction of social systems such as hierarchy, kinship, gender, rules of residence and inheritance
- Modes and dynamics of cultural and linguistic transitions and their genetic correlates
- Mobility and connectivity in the ancient Mediterranean
Curriculum Vitae
since 2022 | Group Leader “MySocialBeIng“, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany | |
2018 - 2021 | Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA and Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA | |
2016 - 2018 | WIN-Kolleg Fellow and Co-Lead of the project "Times of Upheaval: Changes of Society and Landscape at the Beginning of the Bronze Age" of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany | |
2016 - 2018 | Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany | |
2012 - 2016 | Ph.D. thesis “Investigating Social and Population Dynamics in Prehistoric Europe through the Study of Ancient DNA“, University of Tübingen, Germany | |
2004 - 2011 | Studies in biology with focus on human genetics and palaeoanthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA, University of Rostock, Germany, and University of Tübingen, Germany |