Jose Joordens
Guest special professor
- Name
- Dr. J.C.A. Joordens
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- j.c.a.joordens@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-5757-1168
Office days
I am irregularly present at the Faculty. Please contact me by phone or e-mail: +31-623994055 or josephine_joordens@eva.mpg.de.
Research and contact
In my research I combine the disciplines of Comparative Biology, Geology and Archaeology to ultimately answer that big question: what made us human? Given my background, I am especially interested in the relevance of aquatic environments for human evolution.
For my current research activities, see my webpages at the MPI website and at the Naturalis website.
Curriculum vitae
Trained as a marine biologist, I first had a career as applied scientist and consultant in coastal ecology until I decided to go back to academia and study the evolution of hominins. I completed my PhD in Earth and Life Sciences (Free University Amsterdam) in 2011. I worked as researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology (Leiden University) from 2010 to 2017, next from 2017 to 2018 at the Free University Amsterdam, and from 2018 to 2023 at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden. From 2019- 2024, I held the “Naturalis Dubois Chair in Hominin Paleoecology and Evolution” as special professor at Maastricht University. Currenly I am a guest special professor at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University, guest researcher at Naturalis, and guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany).
Guest special professor
- Faculty of Archaeology
- World Archaeology
- Human Origins
- Joordens J.A.C. (5 December 2014), World's oldest piece of art discovered. for In Short (BBC Radio 5). [interview].
- Joordens J.C.A. (3 December 2014), Leidse schelp onthult geheim over evolutie mens. for NOS (NPO 1). [interview].
- Joordens J.C.A. (2012), Treasures from Trinil: hominin environments and subsistence behaviours on Java. (Leiden). [lecture].
- Joordens J.C.A. (2012), Hoe slim waren oermensen eigenlijk? Op zoek naar onze voorouders in Afrika en Azië. (Museum Jeugd Universiteit Maastricht). [lecture].