Research assistants
Lizon Delomosne
Lizon joined the LHOSA team in 2025 as a research assistant. She has a master degree from the Ecole du Louvre and is an expert in digitizing, modelling in 3D and archiving archaeological artefacts and paleontological remains.
Postdoctoral researchers
Charlotte Theye
Charlotte joined our team as a postdoctoral researcher for a project funded by the Fyssen Foundation and CoEvol after having obtained her PhD at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). Her project focuses on the vertebral column, and more specifically on the vertebral trabecular bone structure, of fossil and extant primates. The research aims to identify locomotor-related signals within the vertebral column that will help in refining the locomotor repertoire of fossil hominins.
Edwin de Jager
Edwin joined our team in 2025 as a postdoctoral researcher for a project funded by the Fyssen Foundation and CoEvol after having obtaining his PhD at the University of Cambridge (UK). His project aims to establish a new chronology of structural changes in the hominin brain, integrating fossil evidence that documents the last 7 millions years.
Julia Aramendi
Julia joined the LHOSA team in 2026 as a postdoctoral researcher. After obtaining a PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Salamanca and of the Basque Country (Spain) and then at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (UK) as a Newton International Fellow. Her work focuses on two parallel but interconnected research lines that rely on the use of state-of-the-art methods such as 3D geometric morphometrics, artificial intelligence and virtual labs to study the archaeological and paleontological fossil record. As part of LHOSA, her project focuses on the reconstruction and analysis of hominin postcranial elements from the site of Sterkfontein.
PhD candidates
Harmony Hill
Harmony started her PhD project in 2024 under the supervision of Amélie Beaudet and Douglas Momberg (University of the Witwatersrand) as part of the CoEvol project. Her PhD project seeks to elucidate the role of metabolism within hominin brain evolution. Analyses of brain metabolism in living humans will be conducted using biological and dietary data, and estimations of the metabolic rate will be made for numerous hominin species using physical and virtual cranial measurements.
Master students
Chloé Sanguedolce
Chloé is a Master 2 student from the University of Poitiers. Her project focuses on describing eastern African early Homo and Paranthropus endocasts and is supervised by Edwin de Jager and Amélie Beaudet.
Achraf El Jid
Achraf is a Master 2 student from the University of Bretagne Occidentale and the Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications de Rabat (Morocco). He is contributing to the BrAIn project by developping an algorithm for the identification of bone fragments and is supervised by Noël Richard (XLIM) and Amélie Beaudet.
Agathe Argoud-Puy
Agathe is a Master 1 student from the University of Lille. Her project focuses on describing imprints of the middle meningeal vessels in extant and fossil hominid endocasts under the supervision of Harmony Hill, Edwin de Jager and Amélie Beaudet.
Jaz Ronday
Jaz is a Master 1 student from the University of Poitiers. He is contributing to the BrAIn project by developping a database for the identification and bone fragments and is supervised by Amélie Beaudet, Géraldine Garcia and Jérôme Surault (PALEVOPRIM).