Ángel Fernández AparicioVisiting Investigator / 01 May - 31 July 2021
Ángel Fernández Aparicio is a predoctoral Spanish researcher who currently works in the department of Nursing at the University of Granada. The topics of his research is the analyses of body composition, somatometry, nutritional habits and lifestyles in adolescents with obesity and metabolic syndrome. His PhD project is “Postprandial transport of Oleanolic acid in adolescents and its therapeutic action on THP-1 monocytes-macrophages”. He has a University degree in Nursing and a Master degree in Health Care for the promotion of personal autonomy and attention to end-of-life processes.
InstitutionalAddress:
Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, Av. Ilustración 60, 18016, Granada (Spain)
Research Interests:
Anthropometry; Body composition; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity; Adolescents; Nutritional habits; Prevention and treatment; Health care
Bárbara MazzaVisiting Investigator / 04 April - 26 June 2018
The main objective of my visit was to analyze markers of occupational stress in human bones from Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. For that purpose I got trained in the Coimbra Method to register entheseal changes and I have also learned new methods such as how to get periosteal mouldings of diaphyses to access geometric properties of long bones and to measure the rotational efficiency of the radius and humerus.
Research Interest: Archaeology; Funerary Archaeology; Musculoskeletal Biomechanics; Funerary Practices; Paleopathology
Institutional Address: CONICET – Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano (INAPL), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Visiting Investigator / 01 October 2020 - 01 January 2021
Guillermo ZorrillaVisiting Investigator / 01 October 2020 - 01 January 2021
Guillermo Zorrilla Revilla is a Spanish researcher who currently works at the Paleophisiology and Sociobiology of Hominins, Centro de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana. Guillermo does research in Paleo-physiology and Paleo-biology of Hominins. His PhD project is ‘Bioenergy of children and adolescents of the Pleistocene of Atapuerca’. He has a University degree in Humanities (Extraordinary Bachelor’s Degree Award), skilled in History and Geography (University of Burgos), and a Master degree in Human Evolution. Also, he coursed university studies in the University College Cork, Ireland.
InstitutionalAddress:
Centro Nacional de Investigación de la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Paseo Sierra de Atapuerca, 3, 09002 Burgos, Spain
Research Interests:
Human Evolution, Bioenergetics, Life History, Childhood and physical activity, Physical Anthropology, Archaeology, Human Ecology