Viviane Slon
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Viviane Slon has done groundbreaking work in the relatively new field of Paleogenetics. She is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, and the Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University. She is affiliated with the Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research, where she is Head of the ancient DNA laboratory. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Evolutionary Genetics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.