Hugo Reyes-Centeno

Hugo Reyes-Centeno studies human evolution over the last million years, investigating the emergence of human anatomy as well as the mode and timing of modern human dispersals. Reyes-Centeno completed his doctorate at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences at the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment (Germany). Prior to being appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky, he was Scientific Coordinator of the Humanities Center for Advanced Studies “Words, Bones, Genes, Tools” at the University of Tübingen. He is currently Co-Principal Investigator of the Mid-Scale RI-1 EduceLab, a next-generation infrastructure ecosystem for heritage science funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. He is also an investigator and steering committee member of the EU-funded Oceanic and Southeast Asian Navigators (OCSEAN) project, uncovering the dispersal of Austronesian speakers into Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific.