Pablo Jose Varas Enriquez

Pablo Jose Varas Enriquez is a Lecturer and PhD Candidate in Biological Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, affiliated with the Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture. His research focuses on evolutionary perspectives of human reproductive strategies, life-history traits influenced by resource transfers, and demographic dynamics across populations. He is a member of the Comparative Behavioral Ecology Group and the Max Planck Research Group BirthRites.

• Education:
• PhD Candidate (2019–present), Max Planck Institute
• MSc in Biological Sciences (2017–2019), Universiteit van Amsterdam
• Bachelor’s in Anthropology (2008–2012), Universidad de Chile

His research spans macroecology, demographic modeling, and life-history trade-offs, with work in Chile, Poland, and global datasets. He has explored socioeconomic influences on fertility, stochasticity in life histories, and maternal-fetal conflict. He has taught courses on human ecology, evolution, and physical anthropology at Universidad de Chile.

Awards: BECAS Chile Scholarship (2017–2019). His work has been presented at conferences such as the Cultural Evolution Society and the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association.

Labs/Teams: Active in the Comparative Behavioral Ecology Group and BirthRites Group, focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to human life-history strategies.