ECR Committee Members

Sourav’s research and teaching focus on reconstructing Quaternary paleoenvironmental change, landscape evolution, and contemporary surface processes using field and remote sensing mapping, geochronology techniques, sedimentological and stratigraphical analyses, lake sediment coring, and numerical modeling. Sourav currently is a postdoc at the University of California, Los Angeles where he is extensively using luminescence dating techniques to answer outstanding research questions in sediment dynamics, paleoseismology, paleoclimatology, thermoluminescence, and archeology in the American southwest, Alaska, and New Zealand. His doctoral research at the University of Cincinnati focused on reconstructing Quaternary glaciations and quantifying headwall erosion rates in the Himalaya and Tibet using terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide (TCN) dating. He also worked with micro and macro sedimentology of subglacial landforms in the Indian Himalaya during his Masters at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He currently also teaches online geology courses at Northern Kentucky University. Sourav enjoys fieldwork in the remote wilderness and is ready to share/collaborate if you have an exciting project in mind.

I have completed my Masters in History from Mumbai University, Maharashtra in 2005. I completed my Post Graduate Diploma course in Archaeology and Ancient Indian History and Culture from Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra in 2012. From 2013- 2019, I pursued my Ph.D. research in Palaeolithic Archaeology and have recently submitted my thesis. I have been on 3 excavations at different sites during this period and have done 4 seasons of exploration in my own study region. My expertise covers Palaeolithic lithic typo-technological knowledge along with understanding the landscape scales hominin behavioural patterns as observed during my fieldwork.

Guido Stefano Mariani is a junior researcher at the Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy.

His research focuses on geomorphology and palaeopedology as tools in geoarchaeological investigations and in the study of the interaction between palaeoenvironment and human populations. His main interests are the reconstruction of past landscape changes from soils and archaeological deposits and the understanding of human resilience strategies during past environmental crises.

Annie is a coastal geomorphologist with specific interests in identifying sedimentary signatures of coastal hazards, interpreting late-Quaternary climatic and environmental changes, and understanding coastal changes at various timescales. She has conducted research in multiple Pacific Island Nations and Asian countries. She also studies the coastal evolution and Holocene climatic variations through sediment deposits in Australia.

Martin Seeliger is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Physical Geography at the Goethe-University Frankfurt with particular interests in Geoarchaeology, coastal Geomorphology and Sea-level studies. His current work deals with landscape changes in the northwestern Nile Delta (Egypt). By using a multi-proxy approach, he investigates the fluctuations of former Nile branches and their connection to ancient tells of that region. Furthermore, he aims to establish further local relative sea-level curves for the Aegean Sea.

Dr Kim Davies is a palaeoentomologist based at University College Cork, Ireland and is a Geographer and Quaternary scientist. Her research focuses understanding human-environment interactions through the Holocene across a range of geographical locations. She has a particular interest in understanding how lake ecosystems respond to localised human activity and rapid climatic changes and disentangling the mixed signals of often seen in ecological communities.

I am an archaeologist specializing in human-environment interaction and ethnoarchaeology. My PhD thesis looks at Pottery, Trade and Diet in the archaeology of Surame, Nigeria. I am a 2018 fellow of the Africa Humanities Program (AHP) and a member of the on-going multidisciplinary Nok Culture Research partnership with the Institute for Archaeological and Archaeobotanical Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt-Germany. I have co-directed the annual field school, Department of Archaeology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria 2012-date.

Orijemie’s main scientific interest lies in exploring palynomorphs (pollen and spores) in terrestrial and marine sediments from the tropics in the reconstruction of palaeoenvironmental settings, vegetation changes and climate dynamics in the geologic past. Orijemie also focuses on human (hominin)-environmental dynamics within archaeological contexts particularly in tropical Africa.

I earned my PhD in Environmental Science in 2013 from the Insubria University (Como, Italy). My expertise is in the field of active tectonics, including paleoseismology and earthquake environmental effects. I participated to field surveys in the aftermath of several seismic sequences on the Italian territory (Po Plain 2012, Central Italy 2016, Ischia 2017, Mt Etna 2018). My research focused on fault displacement hazard assessment and the characterization of the spatial pattern of surface faulting and secondary effects.

Nivedita is working as a Woman Scientist (WOS-A DST) at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences Lucknow, India. Her research interest include Quaternary Palaeoclimatic investigations based on multi-proxy data, such as palynological, mineral magnetic and Carbon isotope records from sub-surface sediments of Eastern Himalaya and parts of northeastern India. Presently she is working on Lake sediments from the Eastern Himalaya for palaeoclimatic studies in the monsoon dominated of Northeast India. She has also worked on Tree-ring records from various parts of the Himalayas