William H. Kimbel received his BA from Case Western Reserve University (1976) and his PhD from Kent State University (1986). He was Associate Curator and Head of Physical Anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (1981-1985) before joining the Institute of Human Origins (IHO) in Berkeley, California. In 1997 IHO relocated to Arizona State University, where Kimbel is currently its Director and Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Kimbel has conducted field and analytical research on Australopithecus and early Homo in Africa; Neandertals in the Middle East; the evolution of ape and human skull form and function; and the concepts of biological systematics as applied to paleoanthropological problems. Since 1990, he has co-directed or directed research at the Hadar site in the Afar region of Ethiopia, which has produced more than 400 fossils of the early hominin species Australopithecus afarensis (3.4-3.0 Ma). Kimbel was Joint Editor of Journal of Human Evolution from 2003 to 2008. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005."Las opiniones expresadas por los ponentes no reflejan, necesariamente, las de la Fundación Ramón Areces ni de las instituciones en las que trabajan"
