Professor Jean-Jacques Hublin is the Director of the Department of Human Evolution at the MPI-EVA. He is honorary Professor at the University of Leipzig and a part-time Professor at Leiden University. He holds the International Chair in Paleoanthropology at the College de France, Paris. Past positions include researcher at the CNRS (1981-2000), Professor at the University of Bordeaux (1999-2004), Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley (1992), Harvard University (1997) and Stanford University (1999 and 2011) and Deputy Director for Anthropology, Prehistory and Paleo-environmental Sciences at the CNRS (2000-2003). Among his research lines, the origins of Neandertals and Homo sapiens as well as the interactions between the two groups has occupied a central place in his career. Prof. Hublin has produced over 250 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters in edited volumes. He is the sole or co-author or co-editor of 15 theses, books and edited volumes. In 2014, Prof. Hublin was named as a Thomson Reuters 'Highly Cited Researcher', ranking among the top 1% of researchers in his field. He is the founder and President of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution."Las opiniones expresadas por los ponentes no reflejan, necesariamente, las de la Fundación Ramón Areces ni de las instituciones en las que trabajan"
