- Zeresenay Alemseged
Zeresenay Alemseged (born
4 June ,1969 inAxum ,Ethiopia ) is an Ethopianpaleoanthropologist who discovered the 3.3 million year old girl Selam in Ethiopia. He is currently a researcher at the Department of Human Evolution of theMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology inLeipzig .Background
* 1987-1990 BSc. in Geology (Addis Ababa University )
* 1993-1994 M.Sc. in paleontology from theUniversity of Montpellier II and Paris VI, France
* 1995-1998 Ph.D. in paleoanthropology and paleoenvironment from the University of Paris VI and theMuséum national d'histoire naturelle Career
* 1991-1992 Laboratory of Paleoanthropology (National Museum of Ethiopia )
* 2000–2003 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Human Origins,Arizona State University Grants
*
National Geographic Society (pending)
* National Geographic Society (2003)
* National Geographic Society (2002)
* [http://www.leakeyfoundation.org/ The Leakey Foundation] (2001)
* National Geographic Society (2001)
*Institute of Human Origins (2000)
* Centre National de la Recherches Scientifique (1999)
* French Center for Ethiopian Studies (2000, 2001)
* Collège de France (1998)See also
*
List of fossil sites "(with link directory)"
* List of hominina (hominid) fossils "(with images)"External links
* [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/168 Video of TED Talk]
* [http://www.eva.mpg.de/evolution/staff/alemseged/index.htm Zeray Alemseged Home Page]
* [http://explore-science.blogspot.com/2006/09/selam.html Selam]
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