Charlotte King

Charlotte King is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Human Origins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, since 2024.

Her academic background includes:

• PhD in Biosciences (2019-2024) from the University of Birmingham, UK, with thesis: “The ecomorphology and musculoskeletal kinematics of wild western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla).”
• MSc in Palaeoanthropology (2018-2019) from the University of Sheffield, UK
• BSc in Anthropology (2012-2015) from Oxford Brookes University, UK

Her research integrates biomechanics and comparative morphology to reconstruct locomotor behavior in extinct hominoids, with a focus on applying machine learning and computer vision to advance behavioral analyses. This interdisciplinary approach bridges evolutionary anthropology with computational methods to decode primate movement patterns and their evolutionary implications.

Within the Department of Human Origins, she contributes to research teams investigating human evolutionary history through morphological and behavioral studies of extant primates, particularly leveraging computational tools for kinematic analysis.