Katerina Harvati

Katerina Harvati
Κατερίνα Χαρβάτη
Born	1970 (age 53–54)
Nationality	Greek
Alma mater	Columbia College (B.A.) Hunter College (M.A.) CUNY Graduate Center (PhD)
Known for	Identification of the remains of the earliest known Homo sapiens outside of Africa in the Apidima Cave, Greece
Scientific career
Fields	Paleoanthropology
Institutions	University of Tübingen
Doctoral advisor	Eric Delson [de]

Katerina Harvati (Greek: Κατερίνα Χαρβάτη; born 1970 in Athens) is a Greek paleoanthropologist and expert in human evolution. She specializes in the broad application of 3-D geometric morphometric and virtual anthropology methods to paleoanthropology. Since 2009, she is full professor and director of Paleoanthropology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. From 2020 to 2023 she was Director of the Institute for Archaeological Sciences and since 2023 she is Director of the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen.^[1]