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Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Xiaowei Mao
Beijing Jiaotong University
2
Jérémy Choin
Harvard University
3
Laurits Skov
Aarhus University
4
Luka Papac
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
5
Aaron P. Ragsdale
University of Wisconsin–Madison
6
Eirini Skourtanioti
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
7
Samantha Brown
Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana
8
Lehti Saag
Estonian Biocentre
9
Denis Milošević
University of Zagreb
10
Lukas Waltenberger
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Rising Stars Papers

1
North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period
Science Advances|2025
9 cit.
2
Archaic introgression and the distribution of shared variation under stabilizing selection
PLoS Genetics|2025
6 cit.
3
Influence of Bone Density and Guide Protocol on the Accuracy of Self‐Cutting Implants Using Static Guided Implant Placement—An In Vitro Study
Clinical Oral Implants Research|2025
2 cit.
4
Genetic and geographical origins of Eurasia’s influential Yamna culture
Nature|2025
1 cit.
5
The genetic history of the Southern Caucasus from the Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages: 5,000 years of genetic continuity despite high mobility
Cell|2025
1 cit.
6
CRISP: Cremated Remains Inference of Sex Probabilities – A Software for Bayesian Sex Estimation in Human Cremated Remains
PLoS ONE|2025
1 cit.
7
A path integral approach for allele frequency dynamics under polygenic selection
Genetics|2024
0 cit.
8
Sexual Dimorphism of the Lateral Angle of the Petrous Bone in Children: Growth Patterns and the Influence of Cranial Width
Biology|2025
0 cit.
9
Author response of: A model for background selection in non-equilibrium populations. Round#1
Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology|2025
0 cit.
10
Best practices and pitfalls in using hmmix for reference-free detection of introgressed sequences
Human Population Genetics and Genomics|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Qiaomei Fu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
2
Choongwon Jeong
Seoul National University
3
Priya Moorjani
University of California, Berkeley
4
Nick Patterson
Broad Institute
5
Hamdallah Béarat
Arizona State University
6
Steffi Grote
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
7
Fabrizio Mafessoni
University of Trieste
8
Michael Buckley
University of Manchester
9
Nadin Rohland
Harvard University
10
Swapan Mallick
Broad Institute

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes
Scientific Data|2024
359 cit.
2
Three assays for in-solution enrichment of ancient human DNA at more than a million SNPs
Genome Research|2022
144 cit.
3
The spatiotemporal patterns of major human admixture events during the European Holocene
eLife|2022
138 cit.
4
Ancient genomes from the Himalayas illuminate the genetic history of Tibetans and their Tibeto-Burman speaking neighbors
Nature Communications|2022
123 cit.
5
Bronze and Iron Age population movements underlie Xinjiang population history
Science|2022
107 cit.
6
Human genetic history on the Tibetan Plateau in the past 5100 years
Science Advances|2023
96 cit.
7
Reconstructing the history of founder events using genome-wide patterns of allele sharing across individuals
PLoS Genetics|2022
64 cit.
8
Evolving ancient DNA techniques and the future of human history
Cell|2022
53 cit.
9
Reconstructing the Genetic Relationship between Ancient and Present-Day Siberian Populations
Genome Biology and Evolution|2024
46 cit.
10
Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium
Cell|2025
40 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
David Reich
Broad Institute
2
Svante Pääbo
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
3
Johannes Krause
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
4
Matthias Meyer
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
5
Douglas H. Ubelaker
Smithsonian Institution
6
Erik Trinkaus
Washington University in St. Louis
7
Eske Willerslev
University of Copenhagen
8
Janet Kelso
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
9
Rasmus Nielsen
University of Copenhagen
10
Montgomery Slatkin
University of California, Berkeley

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Principal components analysis corrects for stratification in genome-wide association studies
Nature Genetics|2006
10.7k cit.
2
Population Structure and Eigenanalysis
PLoS Genetics|2006
5.7k cit.
3
A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome
Science|2010
4.6k cit.
4
Gene Flow and the Geographic Structure of Natural Populations
Science|1987
3.9k cit.
5
Standards for Data Collection from Human Skeletal Remains
Medical Entomology and Zoology|1994
3.9k cit.
6
A measure of population subdivision based on microsatellite allele frequencies.
Genetics|1995
3.7k cit.
7
ANGSD: Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data
BMC Bioinformatics|2014
3.3k cit.
8
Ancient Admixture in Human History
Genetics|2012
3.2k cit.
9
ISOLATION BY DISTANCE IN EQUILIBRIUM AND NON-EQUILIBRIUM POPULATIONS
Evolution|1993
2.5k cit.
10
Pairwise comparisons of mitochondrial DNA sequences in stable and exponentially growing populations.
Genetics|1991
2.4k cit.

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