Eske Willerslev ( Eske Willerslev ; born June 5, 1971, Gentofte , Denmark) is a Danish evolutionary biologist. Known for his pioneering work on the study of ancient DNA . Doctor of Science (DSc, 2004), professor at the University of Copenhagen (since 2005).
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The son of a historian. His twin brother is a professor of anthropology.
In the early 1990s - a member of scientific expeditions in Siberia , in Yakutia .
He received a Ph.D. in ancient DNA from the University of Copenhagen at the Department of Biology in 2004. At the Department of Zoology, University of Copenhagen in 1998, received a Ph.D.
Since 2005 - professor at the University of Copenhagen. In 2006-2011. - Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen. Since 2009 - professor at the National History Museum of the University of Copenhagen.
He was a visiting professor at Oxford (at the Department of Zoology in 2005-2007) and Berkeley (2014).
He is a popularizer of science, often appears in the media.
Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Literature (2008) [1] . Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (2014) [2] . Honorary Doctor of the University of Oslo (2014).
Winner of several awards. It is considered a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize [3] .
The author of about 200 publications, including in the journals Science and Nature.
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- Eske Willerslev // Profile on the website of the University of Copenhagen (English)