CHP offers Certificates of Attendance to PhD students


The VR Centre of Excellence, Center for the Human Past (CHP), organises various types of seminars on topics related to overlapping areas in palaeogenetics, archaeology, and historical linguistics, as well as computational research. These activities offer knowledge exchange, research training and mentorship by experts in their fields to junior researchers and PhD students.

PhD students may earn higher education credits (ECTS) for active participation in CHP seminars (if agreed with their supervisor and in accordance with the standard practices at their departments).

These CHP seminars (and Journal Club meetings), often with guest speakers, take place on (some) Wednesdays, 15:00-16:30.

The announcements are published online in the CHP Event Calendar and are delivered in English.


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    Gut microbes that trace ancient human journeys

    The newest piece in Nature’s News & Views, co-authored by our PI, Carina Schlebusch and Maja Vukovikj from Human Evolution Program at Uppsala University discusses the study by Carter et al. exploring what our gut microbiomes can tell us about human population history. Humans have never travelled alone. When our ancestors spread out of Africa…

  • The unknown origins of humans on Swedish radio

    Mattias Jakobsson was featured on Swedish Radio’s morning program (Förmiddag i P1) today, 29 Sept 2026. His conversation with Nicke Nordmark, the program leader, is available at: https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/manniskans-okanda-ursprung (in Swedish). They talked about Homo Sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans and their coexistence; the unknown DNA in our genes; and the possibility that humans as we know…

  • Meet Jaison Jeevan Sequeira, our current Human Past SCAS Junior Fellow

    We are pleased to welcome Jaison Jeevan Sequeira, Guest Lecturer & Researcher, Department of Applied Zoology, Mangalore University, as our new fellow. Jaison is a population geneticist interested in the demographic history of South Asia. His doctoral thesis focused on the ancestral history and genomic diversity of linguistic populations along the southwest coast of India.…