Michal Feldman

Michal Feldman is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Archaeo- and Paleogenetics Group at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (SHEP), University of Tübingen. She previously held a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck - Harvard Research Center for Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean and completed her PhD at Friedrich Schiller University Jena with the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

• Education:
• PhD in Genetics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2019)
• MSc in Medical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University (2013)
• BSc in Pharmacy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2009)

Her research focuses on reconstructing human population dynamics and disease evolution through genomic analysis of archaeological remains, with specific emphasis on Mesolithic to Iron Age populations in the Near East and early Pacific islanders. She has published extensively on topics including plague evolution, agricultural origins, and tumor suppressor genes in historical populations.

Scientific awards: None listed.

Her publications demonstrate expertise in:

• Yersinia pestis genomic evolution
• Neolithic transition studies
• Ancient cancer genetics
• Population mobility analysis
• Polynesian Outlier community health
• Transcontinental genetic admixture