Sanni Översti

Sanni Översti is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany, where she contributes to the TIDE research group's interdisciplinary work on human-environment interactions across deep time. Her position focuses on integrating archaeological evidence with earth science methodologies to analyze historical societal adaptations to ecological shifts.

Her research spans Anthropology, Archaeology, Environmental Science, Human Ecology, and Climate Change, emphasizing how past human activities shaped and responded to planetary changes. Översti's work examines long-term socio-ecological dynamics through material records and paleoenvironmental data, addressing questions of sustainability and resilience in pre-industrial societies.

Within the TIDE group, she participates in collaborative projects investigating the Anthropocene's historical roots, utilizing fieldwork, computational modeling, and cross-disciplinary datasets. Her current efforts prioritize reconstructing human responses to climatic transitions during critical periods like the Holocene, with implications for contemporary environmental challenges.