ESI Academic Staff
Marion Bamford
PalaeobotanyFossil woods, leaves, seeds, pollen and phytoliths and palaeoclimate reconstructions
Shaw Badenhorst
Lee Berger
Palaeoanthropology
Plio-Pleistocene exploration; hominin osteology and taxonomy
Plio-Pleistocene exploration; hominin osteology and taxonomy
Julien Benoit
Ron Clarke
Hominin and human evolution, primatology, palaeontology, fossil reconstruction, Early Stone Age
Paloma de la Peña
Christopher Henshilwood
ArchaeologyOrigins of H. sapiens behaviour, excavations at Blombos Cave and Klipdrift Shelter, Late Pleistocene environmental studies
Ian McKay
Outreach Manager
Frank Neumann
Palynology, Cenozoic Palaeoecology
Bruce Rubidge
Karoo PalaeontologyBasal therapsid taxonomy and palaeobiology; stratigraphy and basin analysis
Francis Thackeray
PalaeoanthropologyHominin cranial morphology, taxonomy and climate analysis
Christine Steininger
Project Manager
Evolutionary Studies Institute, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences
Lyn Wadley
Archaeology
excavations at Sibudu Cave, cognitive and experimental archaeology, environmental studies
excavations at Sibudu Cave, cognitive and experimental archaeology, environmental studies
Bernhard Zipfel
University Collections Manager
Palaeoanthropology
Homininin postcranial studies particularly origins of bipedalism