Organisation and people

• Karen Loise van Niekerk, Director of Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE)
• Simon Armitage, Center Deputy Director

• Christopher Stuart Henshilwood, Professor Emeritus, Former Centre Director
• Zarko Tankosic, Administrative Manager of SapienCE
• Eystein Jansen, Professor in Earth Sciences /Paleoclimatology. Also affiliated with the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
• Karen Loise van Niekerk, Director of Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE)
• Andrea Bender, Professor, Department of Psychosocial Science
• Anna Nele Meckler, Professor, Department of Earth Science and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
• Eoghan P. Reeves, Professor of Aqueous Geochemistry
• Larissa Mendoza Straffon, Researcher, Department of Psychosocial Science
• Jenny Maccali, Researcher, Department of Earth Science
• Sarah Jacoba Deborah Wurz, Professor, Archaeology
• Ole Fredrik Unhammer, PhD candidate, archaeology
• Christopher Miller, Professor, archaeology
• Samuel Ignatius Pereira, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth Science
• Heidi Øhrn, PhD candidate, Faculty of Psychology
• Jasmin Oliviah Culey, PhD Candidate, archaeology
• Aliki Papa, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychosocial Science
• Kurt Heinrich Wogau Chong, Postdoctoral Fellow at SapienCE and SEAS program
• Marzena Cendrowska, Postdoctoral Fellow, archaeology
• Jeremy A. Beller, Postdoctoral Fellow, archaeology
• Katharina Wolff, Professor, Department of Psychosocial Science
• Antoine Muller, Postdoctoral Fellow, archaeology
• Francesco d’Errico, Director of Research at the University of Bordeaux, France, and Professor at SapienCE
• Carin Andersson, Research Professor, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
• Margit Hildegard Simon, Researcher II at NORCE, Norwegian Research Centre, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
• Professor Simon Armitage, Professor in Quaternary Science at Centre for Quaternary Research, Department of Geography, Roal Holloway, University of London, UK, and at SapienCe, UiB
• Ozan Mert Göktürk, Senior Researcher, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre
• Ella Walsh, Postdoctoral Fellow
• Janne Oskari Yrjö-Koskinen

Zarko Tankosic, Project Manager, Administrative Manager

Monica Pedersen, Adviser, Financial Services

Anna Lisa Arefjord, HR Adviser

Magnus Halsnes, Adviser, Doctoral Education and Research Administration

Kirsten Moen, Research Adviser

Bjørg Anja Teigland, Research administrative tasks

Torunn Gjøringbø Saunes, Study Adviser

Janne-Beate Buanes Duke, Communication Adviser

Grethe Bruvoll, Administrative tasks

• Zahra Haghighi, PhD candidate, Faculty of Humanities
• Ellie Pryor, Postdoctoral Fellow, MSCA SEAS Fellow
• Jovana Milic, PhD candidate, Faculty of Humanities
• Stefan Pieter Sobolowski, Research Professor at NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
• Odd Helge Otterå, Researcher II at NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
• Zhongshi Zhang, Researcher II at NORCE, Norwegian Research Centre, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
• Elizabeth Catherine Velliky, Postdoctoral Fellow, archaeology
• Asia Victoria Alsgaard, Postdoctoral Fellow, SEAS Programme and SapienCE
• Magnus Mathisen Haaland, Postdoctoral Fellow, archaeology
• Katrina Nilsson-Kerr, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth Science
• Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou, Director Paleoanthropology, Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoe

Chair: Camilla Brautaset, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen, Camilla.Brautaset@uib.no

Members with voting rights:

• Atle Rotevatn, Head of Department, Department of Earth Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bergen, Norway
• Rune Aune Mentzoni, Head of Department, Department of Psychosocial Science, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway
• Teemu Ryymin, Head of Department, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway
• Trond Martin Dokken, Special Adviser, NORCE, Bergen
• Marion Bamford, Director, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Jessie Ricketts, Professor, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Members with observer status:

• Solange Rigaud, Chargée de Recherche, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, France
• Cosimo Posth, Junior Professor and Group Leader, Faculty of Science, Prehistory, and Arcaeological Sciences, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Secretary without voting rights:

• Karen Loise van Niekerk, Director of Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE)

• Emma Loftus, Professor of Archaeology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Marta Mirazon Lahr, Professor in Human Evolutionary Biology and Director of the Duckworth Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
• Paul Pettit, Professor of Archaeology, Durham University, UK
• Asifa Majid, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Oxford
• David K. Wright, Professor of Archaeology, University of Oslo
• Fiona Jordan, Professor of Anthropology, University of Bristol
• David Nash, Professor of Physical Geography, University of Brighton
• Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr, Professor of Palaeontology, Freie Universität Berlin

• Christopher Stuart Henshilwood, Professor Emeritus, Former Centre Director
• Karen Loise Van Niekerk, Director of Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE)
• Simon Armitage, Professor, Deputy Director, Principal Investigator (PI)
• Eystein Jansen, Professor, Principal Investigator (PI)
• Carin Andersson Dahl, Research Professor, Principal Investigator (PI)
• Andrea Bender, Professor, Principal Investigator (PI)
• Christopher Miller, Professor, Principal Investigator (PI)
• Francesco d´Errico, Professor, Senior Scientist
• Sarah Wurz, Professor, Senior Scientist

Leader Group Secretary: Zarko Tankosic, Project Manager

Other observers:

• Early Career Scientist Representative: Ella Walsh, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Archaeology
• Financial Adviser: Monica Pedersen
• Communication and media adviser: Janne-Beate Buanes Duke