MILWAYS project PI Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė Keen

Assoc Prof Dr Petr Pokorný, palynologists

Dr Michael Kempf
Michael holds multiple Master's degrees, including Geography, Geology, Meteorology, and Archaeology, earned in 2010 and 2018 from the University of Freiburg. He completed his PhD in Physical Geography at the same university in June 2020. Following this, he secured a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and later became a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge.
In 2022, Michael joined the Geography Department and CRC1266 at Kiel. He received a Swiss National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellowship in 2023 for his project titled "EXOCHAINS - Exploring Holocene Climate Change and Human Innovations across Eurasia," which is based at the University of Basel and the University of Cambridge.
Currently, Michael is actively involved in various research projects, including the study of paleoclimate and human mobility across Eurasia, conducting stable isotope analyses in archaeological and ecological contexts, and utilizing computational methods to gain insights into past human behaviors. His expertise lies in multivariate statistics, spatial analysis, and computational modeling in the fields of geography and archaeology.

Meiirzhan Abdrakhmanov, PhD candidate

Tawanda Mushweshwe, PhD candidate