Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias is a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, and at the Evolutionary Ecology Group in the Department of Zoology. Her current research focuses on investigating the social and ecological drivers of individual’s mobility decisions, and how these determine genetic and cultural evolutionary patterns. To do so, I combine methods and data from genetics, computational modelling, archaeology and ethnographic fieldwork among the BaYaka hunter-gatherers in the Republic of Congo.

Cecilia Received her PhD (Biological Anthropology) from the University of Zürich in 2024, and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in 2019. She is Editor of the journal Hunter Gatherer Research, and Book Review Editor of the journal Human Ethology. She also writes for popular media outlets such as Aeon or Sapiens.