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Elif Marie Yildiz

Doctoral Candidate

Academic Education

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

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

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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