Research Staff
Welcome to the research staff pages, where you can find out about life as a member of our research community in the Department of Archaeology. We have a really active group of research staff, on individual fellowships and working on some of our research projects. On these pages you can meet some of them, and find out more about life as a member of our research community.
If you are thinking of applying to York for a fellowship, you can find out more on our fellowships page.
Stephanie Wynne-Jones, Research Staff Coordinator
Researcher in focus - Charlotte Primeau
Charlotte joined the Department of Archaeology in January 2021 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in osteology on the ERC-funded COMMIOS project led by Professor Ian Armit. The multidisciplinary project, combining funerary archaeology, osteology, aDNA and stable isotopes, explores population migrations and interactions across Britain and continental Europe during the Iron AgeCharlotte received a BSc (Honors) in forensic anthropology in 2008 and completed an MSc in Human Identification in 2010, both from the University of Dundee. Following her master’s degree she worked for five years at the Institute of forensic medicine in Copenhagen, Denmark, as a biological anthropologist where she completed her PhD in 2016. Her PhD had a focus on health, diseases and development during the Danish medieval period. Charlotte then trained as a diagnostic radiographer and worked for the NHS in Scotland for the next two years before joining Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada in 2020.
Current researchers
Marjolein Admiraal (European Research Council, Postdoctoral Research Associate)
TRADITION: Long-term Coastal Adaptation, Food Security and Poverty Alleviation in Latin America
Kweku Afrifa (European Research Council, Postdoctoral Research Associate)
SEACHANGE: Quantifying the Impact of Major Cultural Transitions on Marine Ecosystem Functioning and Biodiversity
Akinbowale Akintayo (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
MAEASaM: Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments
Maddy Bleasdale (European Research Council, Postdoctoral Research Associate)
COMMIOS: Communities and Connectivities: Iron Age Britons and their Continental Neighbours
Lindsey Büster (European Research Council, Postdoctoral Research Associate)
COMMIOS: Communities and Con nectivities: Iron Age Britons and their Continental Neighbours
Tim Evans (Research Associate)
Archaeology Data Service
Claire-Elise Fischer (European Research Council, Postdoctoral Research Associate)
COMMIOS: Communities and Connectivities: Iron Age Britons and their Continental Neighbours
Tom Fitton (Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Research Associate)
UETZAP: Urban Ecology and Transitions in the Zanzibar Archipelago
Eloy Gálvez-López (Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Fellow)
MINKS: Conserving our wildlife heritage: comparative biomechanics of feeding in native and introduced minks
Jen Harland (European Research Council, Postdoctoral Research Associate)
SEACHANGE: Quantifying the Impact of Major Cultural Transitions on Marine Ecosystem Functioning and Biodiversity
Stephen Humphreys (Research Fellow)
American Veterans Archaeological Recovery
Mik Lisowski (Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Research Associate)
UETZAP: Urban Ecology and Transitions in the Zanzibar Archipelago
Alexandre Lucquin (European Research Council, Postdoctoral Research Associate)
INDUCE: The Innovation, Dispersal and Use of Ceramics in NE Europe
Andrew Needham (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow)
High-resolution analysis of beads and pendants as an indicator of cultural connection in the northwest European Early Mesolithic
Toby Pillatt (NERC Researcher Co-Investigator)
Branching Out: New Routes to Valuing Urban Treescapes
Charlotte Primeau (European Research Council, Postdoctoral Research Associate)
COMMIOS: Communities and Connectivities: Iron Age Britons and their Continental Neighbours
Anita Radini (Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
A Taste of Hard Work: assessing the utility of ancient tartar to track exposure to respiratory irritants of occupational origin in ancient skeletal remains
Harry Robson (European Research Council, Postdoctoral Research Associate)
SEACHANGE: Quantifying the Impact of Major Cultural Transitions on Marine Ecosystem Functioning and Biodiversity
Alejandro Serna (Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Fellow)
POUR: Pottery use from the earliest records of Patagonia through biomolecular analysis
Michael Stratigos (Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Associate)
Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity | History of Power, People and Nature
Holly Wright (Research Associate)
Archaeology Data Service
Lizzie Wright (Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Fellow)
CatCoW: Cattle husbandry and dairying at the introduction of the Corded Ware Culture: Agricultural and dietary change during the 3rd Millenium BC