Current position:

• Post-doctoral researcher at the BMBF-funded project “Modelling prehistoric hunting behavior” at the University of Cologne, led by Prof. Dr. Eleftheria Paliou and Dr. Tilman Lenssen-Erz
• Collaborator at Institute of Evolution in Africa (IDEA) in Madrid and member of The Olduvai Paleoanthropology and Paleoecology Project

Previous professional and teaching experience:

• 2021: Teaching Assistant at the Institute of Evolution in Africa (IDEA) in Madrid. Course for PhD students on taphonomic and zooarchaeological methods of analysis and their application to the faunal assemblage from the archaeological site AGS (Bed I, Olduvai Gorge)
• Since 2020: Co-direction of doctoral thesis (PhD Student: Lucía Villaescusa, University of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid).
• 2019-2020: Guest Lecturer at University of St. Louis (Madrid, Spain) in the degree of Anthropology. Introductory lectures on human evolution
• 2016 – 2018: Teaching Assistant: Lectures and seminars in the subjects Paleolithic Archaeology, Taphonomy and Quantitative Archaeology at Complutense University of Madrid in degree of Archaeology (128 hours)
• June – July 2017: Teaching Assistant at the paleoanthropological field school at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) of the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
• 2015 – 2016: Zooarchaeology and taphonomy lab for undergraduate students from the degree in Archaeology (Complutense University of Madrid)
• 2012 – 2013: Student research assistant at the “Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie” at Eberhardt-Karls Universität Tübingen.

Scholarships and Awards:

• 2020: International PhD Mention (Complutense University of Madrid)
• 2019: Funding for short research stays for predoctoral researchers (Complutense University of Madrid and Banco Santander)
• 2016-2020: Scholarship for research personnel in training (Complutense University and Banco Santander)
• 2014-2015: La Caixa Foundation scholarship to study a postgraduate degree in Europe
• 2015: Scholarship Introduction to Research (Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC)

Education

• 2015 – 2020: PhD. in History and Archaeology. Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). Thesis title: Taphonomic and spatial study of the archaeological site DS from Bed I in Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
• 2014 – 2015: MPhil in Human Evolutionary Studies. University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
• 2012 – 2013: Eberhardt-Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany). (Erasmus scholarship). BSc. Prehistoric Archaeology and Paleoanthropology.
• 2010 – 2014: BA Archaeology (Specialization in Prehistory and Archaeozoology). Complutense University of Madrid

• 2021: Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Gidna, A., Baquedano, E., Cobo-Sánchez, L., Mora, R., Courtenay, L.González-Aguilera, D., Maté-González, M.A., Prieto Herráez, D. (2021).  3D taphonomic model of long bone modification by lions in medium-sized ungulate carcasses. Scientific Reports 11, 4944.
• 2020: Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Baquedano, E., Cobo-Sánchez, L. (accepted). Homo the Hunter: a review of the evidence for early Pleistocene meat-eating and hominin roles within the predatory guild. In UISPP 2018 Man the Hunter Anniversary Publication
• 2019: Martín-Perea, D. M., Fesharaki, O., Rey Samper, J. J., Arroyo, X., Uribelarrea, D., Cobo-Sánchez, L., Baquedano, E., Mabulla, A., Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., (2019). Mineral assemblages and low energy sedimentary processes in the FLK Zinj, DS, PTK, and AMK complex palaeolandscape (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania). Quaternary International, 526, 15-25.
• 2019: Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Sánchez-Flores, A.J., Baquedano, E., Arriaza, M. C., Aramendi, J., Cobo-Sánchez, L., Organista, E., Barba, R., (2019). Constraining time and ecology on the Zinj paleolandscape: Microwear and mesowear analyses of the archaeofaunal remains of FLK Zinj and DS (Bed I), compared to FLK North (Bed I) and BK (Bed II) at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). Quaternary International, 526, 4-14.
• 2019: Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Saladié, P., Cáceres, I., Huguet, R., Yravedra, J.,         Rodríguez-Hidalgo, A., Martín, P., Pineda, A., Marín, J., Gené, C., Aramendi, J.,       Cobo-Sánchez, L., (2019). Spilled ink blots the mind: A reply to Merrit et al. (2018) on subjectivity and bone surface modifications. Journal of Archaeological Science, 102, 80-86.
• 2019: Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Cobo-Sánchez, L., Aramendi, J., Gidna, A. (2019). The meta-group social network of early humans: a temporal-spatial assessment of group size at FLK Zinj (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania). Journal of Human Evolution, 127, 54-66.
• 2017: Dominguez-Rodrigo, M., Saladié, P., Caceres, I., Huguet, R., Yravedra, J.,         Rodríguez-Hidalgo, A., Martin, P., Pineda, A., Marín, J., Gene, C., Aramendi, J., Cobo-Sánchez, L. (2017) Use and abuse of cut mark analyses: The Rorschach effect. Journal of Archaeological Science, 86, 14-23.
• 2017: Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Cobo-Sánchez, L., Yravedra, J., Uribelarrea, D., Arriaza, C. Organista, E., Baquedano, E. (2017). Fluvial spatial taphonomy: a new method for the study of post-depositional processes. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 10(7), 1769-1789.
• 2017: Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Cobo-Sánchez, L. (2017). The spatial patterning of the social             organization of modern foraging Homo sapiens: a methodological approach for understanding social organization in prehistoric foragers. Palaeogeography,         Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 488, 113-125.
• 2017: Yravedra, J., Mate-González, M.A., Palomeque-González, J.F., Aramendi, J., Estaca-Gómez, V., San Juan-Blazquez, M., García-Vargas, E., Organista, E., González-Aguilera, D., Arriaza, C., Cobo-Sánchez, L., Gidna, A., Uribelarrea, D., Baquedano, E., Mabulla, A., Domínguez-Rodrigo, M. (2017). A new approach to raw material use in the exploitation of animal carcasses at BK (Upper Bed II, Olduvai       Gorge, Tanzania): a Micro-Photogrammetric and Geometric Morphometric analysis of cut marks, Boreas, 46 (4), pp: 860-873.
• 2017: Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Cobo-Sánchez, L. (2017). A spatial analysis of stone tools and fossil bones at FLK Zinj 22 and PTK I (Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) and its bearing on the social organization of early humans, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 488, 21-34.
• 2017: Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Cobo-Sánchez, L., Uribelarrea, D., Arriaza, M. C., Yravedra J., Gidna, A., Organista, E., Sistiaga, A., Baquedano, E., Martín, D., Aramendi, J., Mabulla, A. (2017). Spatial simulation and modeling of the early Pleistocene site of DS (Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania): a powerful tool for predicting potential archaeological information from unexcavated areas, Boreas, 46 (4), 805-815.
• 2015: Yravedra, J., & Cobo-Sánchez, L. (2015). Neanderthal exploitation of ibex and chamois in southwestern Europe. Journal of human evolution, 78, 12-32.
• 2014: Uribelarrea, D., Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Pérez-González, A., Salamanca, J. V., Baquedano, E., Mabulla, A., Musiba. C., Barboni. D., & Cobo-Sánchez, L. (2014).     Geo-archaeological and geometrically corrected reconstruction of the 1.84 Ma FLK Zinj paleolandscape at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Quaternary International, 322, 7-31.
• 2014: Cobo-Sánchez, L., Aramendi, J., & Domínguez-Rodrigo, M. (2014). Orientation patterns of wildebeest bones on the lake Masek floodplain (Serengeti, Tanzania), Quaternary International, 322, 277-284.