guillaume.daver[at]univ-poitiers.fr
Main research question
My research aims at studying primate locomotion (notably apes and humans) in order to understand the relationships between primate behavior and their ecosystem, and the role of such an interaction in the course of human evolution.
Topics of study
To that purpose, I conduct an integrative research that aims at:
- developing fieldworks,
- better characterizing the form- function relationships between postcranial bones morphology and their potential functions in living primates (through 3D methodologies),
- identifying of the osteological correlates of locomotion and manipulation from fossil primate bones.
Fieldworks
In this framework, I co-supervise field excavations in the Neogene deposits of the Moldavian platform in Romania together with Dr. Bogdan G. Răţoi (Universitatea “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, Iaşi, Romania).
Project management
- COVAROS is a research project funded by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region (2024-2029).
- LocHoSiM is a research project funded by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region (2020-2025 décembre).
- Scientific and Technical Director of the ANR HOMTECH project (2018 à 2022).
Autres responsabilités
- Head of the General Biology, Earth and Universe Sciences (BGSTU) undergraduate programme
- Member of the Examination Board for the third year (L3) Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences (BSc in Life Sciences)
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Paris Anthropological Society (Société d’Anthropologie de Paris)
- Member of the ANR SPLASH project: Evolutionary history of a versatile ecological niche: semi-aquatic and herbivorous large cetartiodactyls (PI: J.-R. Boisserie)
- Member of the ANR OLD project: The Oldowan: Emergence and evolution of a culture among early hominins in East Africa (PI: A. Delagnes)
- Member of the ANR ARCHOR project (2012–2016): Archaeology of Origins: Emergence and Evolution of the Earliest Technocultures (PI: S. Harmand)
