PhD candidate Samar Syeda was one of several of our researchers who presented at the 12th annual ESHE meeting and shares her experience of her first-conference triumphs.
In Southwest Germany, our SAC students, staff, and PhD candidates attended the 12th annual ESHE meeting at the Neue Aula, University of Tübingen on the 22nd – 24th of September. The European Society for the Study of Human Evolution promotes the broad field of research which investigates how humans evolved both biologically and culturally.
This year’s ESHE meeting was PhD candidate Samar Syeda’s first ever In-Person conference, so naturally she presented!
Samar thoroughly enjoyed sharing some of her research: ‘Reconstructing hand use in Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi: mapping variation in cortical thickness across the proximal and intermediate phalanges.’
“It went great!!’ she said ‘I was a bit nervous but everyone at ESHE was super lovely and interested, so I was able to explain my research well without getting flustered”.
Give a big hand to Samar!
She was joined by fellow SAC PhD candidate Andrea Lukova, who studies trabecular distribution of the hominin knee and shared the results of her research on ‘Trabecular distribution in extant apes and australopithecus sediba’. Zewdi Tsegai, a postdoctoral researcher funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, gave a Pecha Kucha on the Homo floresiensis foot: Reconstructing foot use from the internal bone of the metatarsals LB1′.
This was also Rhianna Drummond-Clarke‘s first In-Person conference, presenting a talk on Issa chimpanzee locomotor behaviour, whilst both Professor Tracy Kivell, Chris Dunmore, and Dr Matthew Skinner were in attendance as PhD supervisors.