Andrés Currás

Dr. Andrés Currás is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Human Palaeosystems Research Group of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany. With over 15 years of full-time research experience (from late 2006 to 2022), he specializes in analyzing fossil pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs from Quaternary deposits to investigate past socio-environmental interactions, vegetation history, climate change, and land-use patterns. His work aims to reconstruct historical landscape transformations through microfossil evidence.

His research spans Palynology and Quaternary Science, with concentrated expertise in Environmental History, Climate Change impacts, Landscape Archaeology, and Socio-Environmental Interactions. By examining pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs, he deciphers long-term human-environment dynamics, contributing to sustainability discourse through empirical reconstructions of ecological shifts and anthropogenic land-use effects across geological timescales.

Dr. Currás actively contributes to the Human Palaeosystems Research Group's interdisciplinary framework, which integrates archaeological, ecological, and geological methodologies to study Quaternary human-environment systems. His work connects with IslandLab projects focusing on insular landscape evolution and socio-ecological resilience.