Madelaine Böhme

Madelaine Böhme (born 1967) is a German palaeontologist and professor of palaeoclimatology at the University of Tübingen.[1]

Böhme was born in 1967 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She studied at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology and Leipzig University, completing her doctorate there in 1997 and habilitation at LMU Munich in 2003. In 2009 she became professor of terrestrial palaeoclimatology in Tübingen.[2]

Work published in 2017 by a team including Böhme established that Graecopithecus freybergi fossils found in Greece were 7.2 million years old and the species was hominin.[3][4]

In 2019, Böhme and her team were the first to describe Danuvius guggenmosi, an extinct species of great apes with adaptations for bipedalism that lived 11.6 million years ago.[5]

References
  1. "Madelaine Böhme, Paläoklimatologin". alpha-Forum (Video interview) (in German). Bayerischer Rundfunk. 26 July 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  2. Seifert, Michael (2010). "Neu berufen: Madelaine Böhme" (Press release) (in German). University of Tübingen. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  3. "Scientists find 7.2-million-year-old pre-human remains in the Balkans". phys.org. University of Toronto. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  4. Fuss, Jochen; Spassov, Nikolai; Begun, David R.; Böhme, Madelaine (2017). "Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe". PLOS One. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0177127.
  5. Böhme, M.; Spassov, N.; Fuss, J.; Tröscher, A.; Deane, A. S.; Prieto, J.; Kirscher, U.; Lechner, T.; Begun, D. R. (2019). "A new Miocene ape and locomotion in the ancestor of great apes and humans". Nature. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1731-0.
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