Alessandra is a member of the PaleoMIX team at the University of Tartu. She has worked with human and animal remains from various contexts since the beginning of her studies in 2009. She studied Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology across Italy and in UK, and recently got her PhD at the University of Tartu with her…
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Mairi, a member of the PaleoMIX team at the University of Tartu, recently completed her Masters studies at the same institution. Her research focused on the preservation of ancient DNA. In addition to her involvement in the PaleoMIX project, she also serves as an advisor at the Estonian National Heritage Board.
Christinia is a member of the PaleoMIX team at the University of Tartu. She is a Research Fellow at St John’s College, University of Cambridge and leads the Ancient DNA research group at the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research focus is how the intersection of genes, diet and disease have shaped…
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Helery is a member of the PaleoMIX team at the University of Tartu. She is a laboratory technician for archaeo-molecular biology and is finishing her last year at the University of Tartu, majoring in genetic engineering. In addition to the aDNA lab, she also works at a microbiology lab. She specializes in proteomic and ancient…
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Shidong is a member of the PaleoMIX team at the University of Tartu. He is a PhD student at the University of Tartu. His PhD project is Decoding ancient foodway by mass spectrometry based analysis and discovering potential biomarkers for different food sources. His main job in PaleoMIX group will be organic residue analysis (mainly…
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Kaarel is a member of the PaleoMIX team at the University of Tartu. He is a multidisciplinary researcher working on archaeological and historical material in combination with environmental data and various theoretical frameworks. His interests include formal modelling of long-term processes, complex systems, human-environment interactions, quantitative geography, settlement systems, epistemology of digital humanities and archaeological…
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Eve is a member of the PaleoMIX team at the University of Tartu. She is a zooarchaeologist, meaning she studies animal remains from archaeological sites. Her main research interests are livestock husbandry in the past, the history of native breeds, and the use of biomolecular methods. The faunal material she has studied covers periods from…
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The opening conference for the “European Horizon” Twinning Grant Program at the University of Tartu Library took place on April 26th, 2023. The event was organized by the Estonian Research Council. Among the speakers was Mari Tõrv, who presented our project PaleoMIX and shared her experiences and ideas on enhancing the research and administrative capacity…
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Holar is a member of the PaleoMIX team at the University of Tartu. Holar is an IRMS laboratory specialist. He is working for the Geology department and for the PaleoMIX team. There are two IRMS systems at the IRMS laboratory and a very wide variety of analyses are done: greenhouse gases, carbonates, bulk organic material…
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Ester is a member of the PaleoMIX team at the University of Tartu. She is an archaeochemist and works simultaneously in both the Department of Archaeology and the Chair of Analytical Chemistry. Ester’s main research field is biomolecular archaeology with focus on organic residue analysis, which she uses to reconstruct ancient diet and health. In…
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