!!!Eske Willerslev
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__Present and Previous Positions__
* 2024 - Present Professor, Departmentof Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK
* 2024 - Present Director, Centre for Ancient Environmental Genomics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* 2016 - 2024 Prince Philip Chair in Ecology and Evolution, University of Cambridge, UK
* 2015 - 2024 Director, Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* 2007 - 2015 Professor and Director, Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* 2005 - 2007 Professor of Ancient DNA, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* 2003 - 2005 Assistant Professor, Biological Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* 2001 - 2003 Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
* 1997 - 2001 Ph.D. Candidate, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* 1993 - 1996 Expedition Leader and Explorer, Siberian Wilderness, Russia (non-academic)
* 1990 - 1993 B.Sc. Student, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
* 2025 Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award
* 2024 Albert Einstein World Award of Science 
* 2023 Balzan Prize for Evolution of Humankind: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution 
* 2021 Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize 
* 2021 Olav Thon Foundation’s International Research Award 
* 2020 Novozymes Prize, Novo Nordisk Foundation, Denmark
* 2020 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
* 2017 Order of the Dannebrog (knighthood), by her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark 
* 2017 Honorary Doctorate, University of Tartu, Estonia
* 2015 Shanghai Archaeology Forum (SAF) Award 
* 2014 Foreign associate member, National Academy of Sciences USA 
* 2014 Honorary Doctorate, University of Oslo, Norway
* 2012 Rosenkjær Award, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Denmark
* 2008 Member, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Willerslev_Eske/CV]
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Willerslev_Eske/Highlight]
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