Elif Marie Yildiz
Doctoral Candidate
Academic Education |
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| Since 2025 |
Doctoral candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany
Lab rotations in the orientation phase: Simon Fisher, Philipp Gunz, Elisabeth Binder |
| 2023 - 2024 | Master of Science by Research, in Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| 2019 - 2023 | Master of Arts (Hons) in Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| 2019 - 2022 | Bachelor of Philosophy (distance learning), Université Paris-Nanterre, France |
Research Experience |
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| 2023 - 2025 | Research Collaborator (Prof. Cedric Boeckx), Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies and Research, and Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Spain |
| Summer 2023 | Research Intern, Psychology of Language Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands |
Summer Schools |
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| June 2025 | Human, Ancient DNA, Ancestry and Mobility summer school (HAAM) |
| June 2024 | Hearing: from mechanisms to restoration technologies, Institut de l’Audition, Institut Pasteur, France |
Poster Presentations
Yildiz, E. M., Barrio G., Yakubenkova Y., Boeckx, C. (2025). How ancestral patterns of variation shed light on the evolution of the contemporary human condition: leveraging disease phenotype associations in genomics. Annual meeting of European Society for Human Evolution (ESHE), Paris, France.
Yildiz, E. M., Barrio G., Yakubenkova Y., Boeckx, C. (2024). From ancestral patterns of variation to the human condition: leveraging disease phenotype associations in genomics. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) symposium „Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics“, Heidelberg, Germany.
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