Team

Directors

India Schneider-Crease
Co-director

Assistant Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the Center for Evolution and Medicine at Arizona State University.

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Noah Snyder-Mackler
Co-director

Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences and Center for Evolution & Medicine at Arizona State University. 

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Amy Lu
Co-director

Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook University. 

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Thore Bergman
Co-director, Founder

Professor, Departments of Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. 

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Field team

Ambaye Fanta
Researcher (2010-2025)

We dedicate our project to Ambaye's memory and will always hold him in our hearts. 

Eshete Jejaw
Researcher (2008-present)
Setey Girmay
Researcher (2011-present)
Shiferaw Asrat
Research & conservation logistics

Owner, Limalimo Ecolodge

Tariku W/aregay
Research logistics

Owner, Yama Tours Ethiopia

Belayneh Abebe
Conservation Researcher (2013-present)
Yeshemebet Dessie
Facilities coordinator (2010-present)

US support staff

Lorin Hutchings
Lab Technician

Postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate researchers

Natalia Camargo
PhD Student

Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University (advisor: Dr. Lu)

Jacob Feder
Postdoctoral Researcher

NSF SBE Postdoctoral Researcher, Arizona State University

Tiffany Duong
Honor's Undergraduate Student

Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University (advisor: Dr. Schneider-Crease)

Sophia Kottke
PhD Student

Evolutionary Anthropology Program, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Institute of Human Origins, Center for Evolution and Medicine (advisors: Dr. Schneider-Crease, Dr. Joan Silk). 

Brooklynn Scott
PhD Candidate

School of Life Sciences, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University (advisor: Dr. Snyder-Mackler)

Medhavi Verma
PhD Student

Global Health, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University (advisor: Dr. Schneider-Crease)

Maya Saroff
Master's Student

Molecular and Cellular Biology, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University (advisors: Dr. Schneider-Crease, Dr. Arvind Varsani)


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