Aurelie is a zooarchaeologist specialising in the use of biomolecular techniques (ancient DNA and stable isotopes) to study domestication and animal management. Her current project is - The Consequences of Gene Flow Between Wild and Domestic Populations during Livestock Evolution
After her PhD at the National Museum of Natural History of Paris (France) on the use of animals in central Mexico, Aurelie has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of York for three years, first as a Fyssen Foundation fellow and then as a Marie Curie Research Fellow, investigating changing patterns of animal husbandry, especially through the study of the turkey and its travel from America to Europe. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher on the NERC-funded project entitled “The consequences of gene flow between wild and domestic populations during livestock evolution”.