Wanda Zinger

Wanda Zinger is a Researcher in the Department of Geosciences at the Faculty of Science, University of Tübingen, with additional affiliation at UMR7194 HNHP, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Her work reconstructs biological and social identities of ancient Oceania individuals by integrating phenotypic and genotypic data from Vanuatu archipelago remains, bridging macroscopic and microscopic analyses and fieldwork-laboratory collaboration.

• 2021: PhD in Biological Anthropology, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
• 2018: MSc in Quaternary, Prehistory and Biology, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
• 2015: BSc in Archaeological Science, Sorbonne Université Paris 1

Her research focuses on human migration patterns and exchange dynamics in the Southwest Pacific, using advanced morphometric methods to document 3,000 years of movement in South Melanesia. She has co-organized sessions at international conferences and contributed to museum outreach projects like the Musée de l’Homme's permanent exhibition guide on human diversity. Recent publications highlight interdisciplinary approaches to understanding Polynesian outliers and phenotypic changes over millennia.