Maria Fernanda Martínez Polanco

I am an anthropologist from the National University of Colombia where I obtained a Master’s degree in biology in 2008. After that, I won an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for studying a Master’s degree in “Quaternary and Prehistory” at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona) and Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (Paris) (2010-2012). Then I was awarded an Andrew Mellon Foundation pre-doctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama) (2014-2015). Subsequently, I was awarded an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a PhD degree at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) and Muséum national d’histoire Naturelle (MNHN) (2018-2021). In 2022, I received the International Doctorate Research Prize from URV. I am a Post-doctoral researcher at Universitat Rovira I Virgili (URV) and the Mammalogy Section of the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (Munich, Germany). I follow an interdisciplinary path starting with anthropology going through biology in particular through wildlife management and concentrating on archeology.