Neanderthal species status (Harvati et al. 2004 PNAS), the identification of an early modern human in Southern Africa (Grine et al. 2007 Science; a publication that TIME magazine ranked as one out of Top Ten discoveries of the year); and the demonstration that modern humans evolved much earlier than previously thought, around 300,000 years ago in Morocco (Hublin et al. 2017, Nature). Finally, Harvati's work has spearheaded paleolithic and paleoanthropological research in South-East Europe (Harvati and Roskandic 2016, Tourloukis and Harvati 2018). She has received two grants of the European Research Council, one ERC Starting Grant in 2011, and one ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016. In addition, she directs a Centre for Advanced Studies on linguistic, cultural and biological trajectories of the human past since 2015. Awards 1997 Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Doctoral Fellowship 1998 American Museum of Natural History Fellowship (Anthropology and Paleontology) 2000 City University of New York Dissertation Year Fellowship 2009 Hellenes abroad award – Woman of the year 2009, Europe 2011 ERC Starting Grant 2014 Research Prize of Baden-Württemberg for basic research 2016 ERC Consolidator Grant 2021 Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Publications References External links Columbia College (New York) alumni City University of New York alumni Academic staff of the University of Tübingen Greek paleoanthropologists Living people 1970 births People from Athens