People

Ben Sibson

bsibson@g.harvard.edu

Teaching Assistant - Life Sciences 2: Evolutionary Physiology and Anatomy & HEB 45: Technology, Behavior, and Human Evolution

I'm an evolutionary biologist and biomechanist. My research uses techniques and principles of biomechanics, anatomy and physiology, and evolution to study the effects of physical activity and aging on the musculoskeletal system, with particular focus on...

Suvimal Sindhu

suvimalkumar_sindhu@fas.harvard.edu

Post-doctoral Fellow

Mira Sinha

mirasinha@g.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate (G4)

Mira obtained her B.S. in Biology at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. She began her Ph.D. in the Human Evolutionary Biology department in 2021. Mira is broadly interested in knowing what makes human brains different from other animals. Specifically...

Kendra Sirak

Kendra_Sirak@fas.harvard.edu

Research Associate

Reich Lab Senior Staff Scientist

Jonathan Smolen

jonathansmolen@fas.harvard.edu

Post-Doctoral Fellow

I investigate feedbacks between life and the environment on a changing Earth – particularly, long-term dynamics between fire, climate, and vegetation. To do this, I reconstruct ancient environments using organic molecular and isotopic geochemistry.

Janet Song

janetsong@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor

There are millions of sequence variants between humans and other species. The Song lab aims to identify and characterize the variants that contributed to human-specific traits, with a particular focus on the evolution of the human brain. We are also...

Dylan Sosa

dsosa@fas.harvard.edu

Post-doctoral Fellow

Dylan studies regulatory and functional DNA variation modulating development of the human musculoskeletal system, particularly postcranial joints. Through the integration of comparative, computational, and functional genomics, Dylan aims to identify...

Nina St. Hillaire

nsthillaire@g.harvard.edu

Graduate Student (G3)

Nina is interested in the genetic processes that shape the human shoulder. She uses developmental genetics and comparative morphology to investigate signals of functional evolutionary change among primates. Prior to Harvard, Nina graduated from the...

Martin Surbeck

msurbeck@fas.harvard.edu

Associate Professor

My research focusses mainly on questions related to aspects of competition and cooperation within and between groups. I make use of our closest living relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees as referential models, to infer about potential selective pressures...

Ciara Sypherd

PhD student (G4)

Ciara earned their B.S.E. in aerospace engineering and B.S. in astrobiology and biogeosciences from Arizona State University in 2020. Ciara is currently a graduate student in bioengineering at Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...

Daniel Tabin

dtabin@g.harvard.edu

PhD Student (G5)

Daniel Tabin is a fifth-year PhD student studying human history through genetics in David Reich's lab.

Michelle Tang

michelle_tang@g.harvard.edu

PhD Student (G2)

Michelle studies how evolutionary mismatches between small-scale and urban-industrial cultural environments shape the lives and well-being of adolescents and young adults. Before joining HEB, she received her B.A. in English and Computer Science from...