Zeresenay Alemseged

Zeresenay Alemseged (born 4 June, 1969 in Axum, Ethiopia) is an Ethopian paleoanthropologist who discovered the 3.3 million year old girl Selam (Australopithecus) in Ethiopia. He is currently a Researcher at the Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Background

• 1987-1990 BSc. in Geology (Addis Ababa University)
• 1993-1994 M.Sc. in paleontology from the University of Montpellier II and Paris VI, France.
• 1995-1998 Ph.D. in paleoanthropology and paleoenvironment from the University of Paris VI and the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle et Paris VI.

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)
• 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

• Zeray Alemseged Home Page
• Selam