People

Martin Surbeck

msurbeck@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor, Human Evolutionary Biology

Dr. Surbeck received his master diploma in Biology from the University of Zürich in 2003, after completing his diploma thesis on the determination of queens in social insects at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. He received his Ph.D. 2011 in...

Leveda Cheng

levedacheng@g.harvard.edu

Former graduate student

Leveda Cheng received her MSc in Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology at the University of St Andrews in 2011. She is broadly interested in the evolution of primate social behaviour. Specifically, she is interested in understanding the evolutionary...

Danielle da Cruz

danielledacruz@fas.harvard.edu

Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project Administrator

Maisie Ettinger

Graduate student

Maisie received her BSc in Zoology from the University of Exeter and went on to complete a Master's in Tropical Forest Ecology at Imperial College London. During her Master's, she used genetic methods to investigate and quantify the diet of orangutans in...

Lily Fornof

lfornof@g.harvard.edu

Graduate Student

Lily Fornof received her B.A. in both Biology and Cognitive Science at Swarthmore College in 2020. Her undergraduate research focused on the landscape of fear of red-tailed monkeys in the Mahale Ecosystem, Tanzania in an attempt to better understand the...

Miguel Gareta Garcia

Research Associate

Dr Miguel Gareta Garcia did his masters in Conservation and Evolution at the University of Valencia in Spain and completed his PhD at the University of Neuchâtel under the supervision of Prof. Redouan Bshary. He studied female vervet monkeys' social...

Megumi Kirby

Research data manager

Megumi Kirby earned her B.A. in Integrative Biology from Harvard College in 2023. For her senior thesis, she collaborated with members of the Pan Lab to examine food-sharing behavior in wild bonobos, using data from the long-term Kokolopori research site...

Kris Sabbi

College Fellow

Dr. Kris Sabbi researches the ways that internal and external conditions shape primate behavior between infancy and adulthood. She earned her Ph. D. from the University of New Mexico (2020) studying sex differences in wild chimpanzee social and hormonal...

Liran Samuni

lsamuni@fas.harvard.edu

Research Associate

Dr. Samuni received her Masters in Zoology from the Tel-Aviv University in 2013, and her Ph.D. in Biology from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) and the Leipzig University in 2018. Her main research focus on underlying...

Isaac Schamberg

isaac_schamberg@fas.harvard.edu

Research Associate

Prior to joining the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology as a College Fellow in 2018, Dr. Schamberg received his PhD in 2016 in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a postdoctoral scholar at the Max Planck Institute...

Sofia Schembari

Graduate student

Sofia Schembari completed her BA in Evolutionary Biology in 2019 at Columbia University, where she studied male responses to female sexual solicitations and female mate choice in blue monkeys. She has conducted field work in Kenya with blue monkeys and...

Erin Wessling

ewessling@fas.harvard.edu

Reseach Associate

Dr. Wessling received her B.S. in Animal Ecology and M.A. in Anthropology from Iowa State University in 2009 and 2011, respectively. She completed her dissertation on environmental constraints in savanna chimpanzees living at the edge of their...