CONGRATULATIONS

Luca Fiorenza
December 6, 2018

Congratulations to Jinyoung (Claire) Lee (the 1st on the left) and Sarah Fung (third from the left) who have successfully completed their Honours degree with a First Class Honours! Claire worked on occlusion in Australian aboriginal childrem from Yuendumu (Northern Territory) using a longitudinal sample, while Sarah specifically focus on function morphology of the Carabelli trait (a small additional cusp found on the mesiolingual aspect of upper molars) using the different individuals from the same population.

The Palaeodiet Research Lab is very proud of Claire and Sarah and invites you to apply for Honours research program in our lab to follow their same pathways to success.

(Dr. Olga Panagiotopoulou second from the left, and Dr. Fiorenza, last one on the right)

Luca Fiorenza

Luca is Head of the Palaeodiet Research Lab and he received his Bachelor/Master degree in Natural Sciences in 2003 at La Sapienza University in Rome (Italy), and completed his PhD in Biological Sciences between the Goethe University and the Senckenberg Research Institute (Frankfurt, Germany) at the end of 2009. During his doctoral degree he was part of an outstanding multidisciplinary network called EVAN (European Virtual Anthropology Network), where he mastered cutting-edge techniques for the study of anatomical variability, including medical imaging, 3D digitisation, display, modelling and programming. Luca’s research interests mostly focus on functional morphology of the masticatory apparatus in human and non-human primates, and on the importance of the role of diet in human evolution.