Jean-Jacques Hublin is a paleoanthropologist, author of numerous works on the evolution of Neanderthals and the African origins of modern man.
He has played a pioneering role in the development of virtual Paleoanthropology, which makes extensive use of medical and industrial imaging techniques, and computer technology to reconstruct and analyze fossil remains. He is also interested in the evolution of growth rhythms and brain development in hominids, and in the history of his discipline.
After a career as a researcher at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Jean-Jacques Hublin was appointed Professor at the University of Bordeaux-I (1999). Since 2004, he has been Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany), where he created the Human Evolution Department. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley (1992), Harvard University (1997) and Stanford University (1999 and 2011). Since 2010, he has been a regular lecturer at Leiden University (Netherlands). In 2011, he was chosen to be the first president of the newly founded European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE).
From 2014 to 2021, Jean-Jacques Hublin is visiting professor in the international Paleoanthropology chair at the Collège de France. In 2017, he and Prof. Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer led an international team that unearthed the remains of primitiveHomo sapiens associated with stone tools and faunal remains at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco.
In September 2021, Jean-Jacques Hublin becomes Professor of Paleoanthropology at the Collège de France. He will head the Paleoanthropology team at the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en biologie.
