Following the publication of his article on Human Brain Mapping, titled 3D mapping from human cranial endocasts: A powerful tool to study hominin brain evolution in June 2022, Edwin de Jager (2021 cohort, Lucy Cavendish College) has presented his research on many occasions this year.
Shortly after the publication, Edwin worked in Toulouse as part of an ongoing research collaboration to define this method and discussed his research at Le Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo), a brain research lab which is part of the CNRS and the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III). He presented a seminar titled: Skulls to brain: tracking the fossil hominin cerebral architecture using advanced imaging techniques and 3D modelling.
The collaboration project is titled the EndoMap project and is partially funded by the French government (Campus France) and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. After this, Edwin had the opportunity to present his research at the prestigious FENS forum (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies) in the form of a poster.
Edwin is travelling to South Africa with his collaboration team as part of the EndoMap project for science communication, where he will visit various labs at the University of Witwatersrand and University of Pretoria as well as Palaeontology museums and excavation sites.