{"id":1676,"date":"2025-03-24T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/?page_id=1676"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:42:18","slug":"postdoctoral-research-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/research\/postdoctoral-research-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Postdoctoral research projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Postdoctoral research projects<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66%\">\n<p>Our postdoctoral researchers contribute to the Center&#8217;s overarching goal to illuminate and understand various aspects of human development over the past 10,000 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They work with computer-based analysis methods and large databases to develop theories and methods for analysing aggregated data from genetics, archaeology, and linguistics, thereby advancing innovative interdisciplinary research on human history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-round-corners is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-29271053 wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\" style=\"border-radius:7px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-border has-border-color has-custom-link-dark-border-color has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9a4c8acf wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-width:1px;border-radius:7px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-568179f16bae4b2bc036e9f34c987e16\">2025-27<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Francesco Giannelli<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Francesco-Giannelli-s-20250901.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2013\" style=\"border-radius:10px;aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Francesco-Giannelli-s-20250901.jpg 480w, https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Francesco-Giannelli-s-20250901-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:75%\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color\">The expansion of Bantu-speaking populations in sub-Saharan Africa, integrating genomic, linguistic, and spatial data<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Project summary<\/summary>\n<p>My research focuses on population genomics, with experience across multiple animal species and evolutionary contexts. During my PhD at the Polytechnic Marche University (Italy), I investigated how expansion dynamics affect neutral and deleterious genetic diversity. I am specialised in forward simulations with SLiM, particularly in continuous-space modelling.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Francesco-Giannelli-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Research Gate<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-border has-border-color has-custom-link-dark-border-color has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9a4c8acf wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-width:1px;border-radius:7px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-935d656fadf79d2ef31e524f8ef3d6ef\">2024-26<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mattias Sj\u00f6lander<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mattias_sjolander-credits-Per-Melander-UmeaUni-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1792\" style=\"border-radius:10px;aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mattias_sjolander-credits-Per-Melander-UmeaUni-s.jpg 480w, https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mattias_sjolander-credits-Per-Melander-UmeaUni-s-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:75%\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color\">Tracing human and natural change in big interdisciplinary data<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Project summary<\/summary>\n<p>My research interests includes interdisciplinary apporaches in the study of how human &#8211; environment relationships have developed over time. In my research I have studied the use of bifacial points, and its relation to the exploitation of quartzite, among hunter-gatherers in V\u00e4sterbotten County during the Bronze Age period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my current project I am using exploratory techniques for interrogating large environmental datasets, including fossil insect and pollen data, from the European region. The aim is to integrate the information from the two proxies for environmental change in order to reconstruct the Holocene European landscape and study human mobility over time.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Mattias-Sjoelander-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Research Gate<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postdoctoral research projects Our postdoctoral researchers contribute to the Center&#8217;s overarching goal to illuminate and understand various aspects of human development over the past 10,000 years. 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