Katrin Schaefer is Associate Professor and Deputy Head at the Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna.

Her interests center around the evolutionary forces and constraints that shaped and continue to shape our minds, our behaviors, and our bodies. Current research focusses on biological causes and psychological effects of modern human craniofacial shape variation (with a special focus on sexual dimorphism and ontogenetic patterns) using Geometric Morphometric methods. She is also involved in paleoanthropological field research in Ethiopia, and non-human European primate research.

Academic positions

since 2004	Associate professor, Dept of Anthropology, Univ Vienna
2000-2004	Assistant professor, Department of Anthropology
1995-2000	Contract assistant, Department of Anthropology
1994	Research assistant in the MA7 (Kulturamt Wien) project entitled “Die Lebendigkeit von Plätzen im öffentlichen Raum“ at the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethology, Vienna, Austria.

Education

2004	Habilitation (venia docendi for Anthropology) “Quantifying evolutionary anthropology — from behavior studies to geometric morphometrics”, Univ of Vienna
1997	Doctoral thesis in anthropology “The social-integrative potential of urban squares” (in German) Univ of Vienna, supervised by Karl Grammer, Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethology, Vienna
1994	Master of Science in zoology entitled “Communication and Satisfaction in Urban Housing Areas” (in German) supervised by Karl Grammer, LBI for Urban Ethology, Vienna
1988-1991	Study of Common Biology at the University of Vienna, Austria
1988	Practical training at Centre of Human Genetics, Univ of Bremen
1987	Development aid in São Paulo, Brazil
1986	Abitur in Bremen, Germany

Selected grants & activities

2009	Morphometrics of human facial variation in Ethiopia (PI)
2009	EFS Unternehmsberatung (industry grant): Ethiopian Face Perception (PI)
2009-2012	BM.W_F (for MUSE) grant Euphorische Anfänge – dysphorische Gegenwart: Anthropologische Sammlung im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Ethik (PI M.Teschler-Nicola)
2008	EFS Unternehmensberatung research grant: Psychomorphometrics of car fronts in Ethiopia (PI)
since 2007	DFG Emmy-Noether Programm: Evolutionary Psychology of Human Physical Appearance & Body Movement to B. Fink. (intl. collaborator)
2006-2009	EU FP6 Marie Curie Actions grant EVAN, MRTN-CT-2005-019564 to G. Weber et al. (participant & Gender Board)
2004-2006	Co-Leader of the ‘Center of Morphometrics', Dept. of Anthropology
since 2000	Yearly participation in the PaleoAnthropological Research-Team mission, surveying Pliocene deposits in the Somali Region, Ethiopia
2004-2007	bm:bwk grant GZ200.093/1-VI/2004 “New Perspectives in Anthropology” Austrian Council for Science & Technology to H. Seidler et al.
2003, 2004	Leader of the "Red Bed Exploration Survey" mission in the Northwest Afar Depression, Afar Region, Ethiopia
2003	Comparative studies of the Galili specimens at the National Museum Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2002	Investigations of the Pleistocene hominid teeth from Okladnikov and Denisova caves, Siberia (PI)
1999	Co-leader of the University-Anniversary Foundation of the City of Vienna project (MA8 H-1/98): Future of Urban Living
1999	Leader of the Austrian National Bank project (OeNB 7270/1) Quality and Quantity of Human Interactions on Public Squares
1998	Süddeutsche Zeitung, Pace project (Co-PI)
1998	Leader of the MA18 project (Stadtentwicklung und Stadtplanung Gruppe Wissenschaft. WI/1012/97): Satisfaction and Cooperation in Public Spaces
1997-1999	Co-leader of the project: Individual and Cultural Diversity, supported by the Johann Jacobs Foundation Zurich, Switzerland
1996	Investigations of Peruvian ice-mummies at the Universidad Católica Santa María de Arequipa and mummies at the Centro Mallquí in Ilo, Peru. PI: H Seidler

Organising activities

2009	EVAN Gender Board Workshop: Life After EVAN. Jan. 13–14, Athens, Greece
2008	19th Altenberg Workshop of Theoretical Biology “Measuring Biology — Quantitative Methods: Past and Future”, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg
2008	Summer school and Symposium “Multivariate Techniques for Growth and Evolution of Form”, Vienna
2006	Vienna MorphoFest 2006: Summer School, Symposium and Workshop on Geometric Morphometrics, Vienna
2000	3rd Zumtobel Lectures: Missing Geometry in Palaeoanthropology, Vienna
1999	3rd Philipp V. Tobias Lectures: Evolution of the Human Brain, Vienna
1998	2nd Zumtobel Lectures: Vienna Morphometric Workshop, Vienna
1997	Philipp V. Tobias Lectures, Vienna
1996	13th Conference of the International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE), Vienna

Selected cooperations

• Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
• Dept. for Sociobiology/Anthropology, Univ Goettingen, Germany
• Vienna University Clinic of Dentistry, Department of Orthodontics, Vienna
• Dept. of Human Evolution, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
• Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
• Breuckmann-Company, Meersburg, Germany
• Dept. of Anthropology, University of Durham, UK
• Dept. of Biological Psychology, University of Vienna
• Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Med. Uni. Vienna, Vienna
• Archäologische Biologie & Anthropologie, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna
• Dept of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
• Paläoanthropologie, Sektion Tertiäre Säugetiere, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Department of Radiology II, University Clinic Innsbruck, Austria
• Dept. of Behavioral Biology, University of Vienna

Theses supervision

since 2004	15 Master theses completed, five running; one PhD thesis completed, four running
1995-2004	Ten Master theses co-supervised