People

Daniel E Lieberman

danlieb@fas.harvard.edu

Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences

Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology

Affiliate, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

The basic question I study and teach —why does the human body look and function the way it does— requires an evolutionary perspective because nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. An evolutionary approach to human anatomy and...

Yi Jia Liow

yijialiow@fas.harvard.edu

Visiting Fellow

Graduate Student at University of Tokyo

Yi Jia is a visiting Ph.D. student from the University of Tokyo. Her research explores the intersection of nutritional neuroscience, the gut microbiome, and eating behavior. Yi Jia successfully defended her dissertation in early February 2026 to the...

Margot Louail

margotlouail@fas.harvard.edu

ASPR Post-Doctoral Fellow

I am a paleobiologist who studies the past ecologies of African suids and primates (including hominins) in the Pliocene and the Pleistocene. I explore how these two communities responded to environmental dynamics in eastern Africa, particularly in the...

Javier Maravall López

fmaravalllopez@fas.harvard.edu

Graduate Student (G3)

Javier graduated from the University of Barcelona with bachelor's degrees in mathematics and philosophy and he holds master's degrees in mathematics, history, and mathematical and computational engineering. Prior to joining the Reich lab in the HEB...

Megan Michel

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Bryce Mitsunaga

bryce_mitsunaga@fas.harvard.edu

Post-Doctoral Fellow

I am an organic and carbonate isotope geochemist who studies Earth's thousand- to million-year climate cycles, specifically how changes in ocean temperatures and circulation drive terrestrial hydrology (e.g., monsoons) and ecology. My current research...

Maryam (Mare) Mohebbi

Research Assistant

Mare earned her M.S. in Neuroscience, building on her background in Psychology, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. During her studies she worked at the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center (BNAC), where she investigated the Tissue Pathology...

Raphael Mu

rmu@fas.harvard.edu

PhD Student (G1)

I am building mathematical models of social evolution and strategic interaction to study human culture and how it encodes and is encoded by our psychology, physiology, and environment. One focus is to explore how cooperative behavior emerges and deepens...

Aidan Murphy

aidanmurphy@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate (G5)

I'm interested in how brains evolve. Our lab uses canines to study breed-specific behaviors. We also use existing non-human primate data to investigate neuroanatomical differences that might contribute to cognitive/behavioral differences between species.

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

natterson-horowitz@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer

Lecturer, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, UCLA School of Medicine

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D., Ph.D., is a cardiologist and evolutionary biologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, Harvard University’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, and UCLA School of Medicine. She serves as chair of the National...

Annabel Perry

annabelperry@g.harvard.edu

Graduate Candidate (G4)

Reich Lab

Annabel's research interests include the genetic basis of complex behavior. She has expertise in using computational tools to analyse large genomics datasets.