Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, PD Dr
Senior Researcher & Junior Research Group Leader, University of Tübingen
alexandros.karakostis@uni-tuebingen.de
Biography
PD Dr. Fotios Alexandros Karakostis is a permanent Senior Researcher and Group Leader
in Biological Anthropology. His research, teaching, and supervisory activities focus on the
development and application of multidisciplinary approaches for reconstructing habitual
behavior in past human populations and investigating their interactions with the surrounding
environment. He has developed and experimentally validated an extensive range of
innovative methodological approaches, including the Validated Entheses-based
Reconstruction of Activity (V.E.R.A.) 1.0 and 2.0 methods, novel 3D geometric morphometric
techniques for the analysis of functional morphology, biomechanical musculoskeletal
modeling, and experimental archaeological approaches integrating neuroscientific
techniques such as electromyography (EMG) and electroencephalography (EEG). His
research has generated important new insights into manual dexterity, functional adaptation,
and habitual behaviors among fossil hominins and recent human populations.
