Viviane Slon

Viviane Slon
Alma materTel Aviv University
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Known forPaleogenetics
Denny
AwardsNature's 10 (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsAncient DNA
Human evolution
Paleoanthropology
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Doctoral advisorSvante Pääbo

Viviane Slon is a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. She identified that a teenage girl born 90,000 years ago had both Neanderthal and Denisovan parents. She was selected as one of Nature's 10 in 2018.