Thomas A. Püschel

Thomas joined the university as Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography as well as Tutorial Fellow at St Hugh's in 2023. He completed his PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Manchester in 2018. Thomas holds a MSc from the University of York and an undergraduate degree in Biological Anthropology from the University of Chile. Previously, he was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford and later also a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Reading.

Thomas' research interests relate to identifying the key adaptations that define different stages of primate and human evolution. His work brings together biological anthropology, palaeontology, and evolutionary biology, using cutting-edge informatic techniques to analyse genetic, anatomical, ecological, and other kinds of data. Thomas is a member of the Palaeo-Primate project which entails a yearly fieldwork season in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.