Zeresenay Alemseged
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Zeresenay Alemseged (born 4 June 1969 in Axum, Ethiopia) is an Ethopian paleoanthropologist who discovered the 3.3 million year old girl Selam (Australopithecus) in Ethiopia. He is currently a Researcher at the Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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[edit] Background
- 1987-1990 BSc. in Geology (Addis Ababa University)
- 1993-1994 M.Sc. in paleontology from the University of Montpellier II and Paris VI, France.
- 1995-1998 Ph.D. in paleoanthropology and paleoenvironment from the University of Paris VI and the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle et Paris VI.
[edit] Career
- 1991-1992 Laboratory of Paleoanthropology (National Museum of Ethiopia)
- 2000 – 2003 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University
[edit] Grants
- National Geographic Society (pending)
- National Geographic Society (2003)
- National Geographic Society (2002)
- The Leakey Foundation(2001)
- National Geographic Society (2001)
- Institute of Human Origins (2000)
- Centre National de la Recherches Scientifique (1999)
- French Center for Ethiopian Studies (2000, 2001)
- Collège de France (1998)
[edit] See Also
- List of fossil sites (with link directory)
- List of hominina (hominid) fossils (with images)
