Viviane Slon

Dr. Viviane Slon is the head of the Ancient DNA facility at the Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research, and a Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Anatomy and Anthropology and Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University (Israel). Her PhD and post-doctoral research were conducted in the Department of Evolutionary Genetics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany). She has an MSc in Medical Sciences and a BSc in Medical and Life Sciences, both from Tel Aviv University. Dr. Slon has vast experience studying DNA from various prehistoric contexts. In particular, she has developed methods to recover and analyze ancient human DNA from sediments and has applied these to multiple archaeological sites. Dr. Slon is the recipient of the Dan David Prize Scholarship for Young Researchers (2017), the Otto Hahn Medal (2018), and the Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award (2022).