Amelie Stephanus is a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Science and Technology Policy at the Technical University of Munich since 2026. As part of the DFG project “New Evidence Practices in Archaeology: On the Relationship of Archaeogenetic and Archaeological Evidence in the Study of Kinship,” she investigates how ancientDNA is integrated into archaeological studies of kinship, as well as the opportunities, risks, and tensions that arise in the process.
Amelie Stephanus holds a master’s degree in “Transcultural Studies” from the University of Bremen. In her master’s thesis, she examined the production of belongings in direct-to-consumer genetic ancestry testing. For her bachelor’s degree, she studied sociology and French literature at the University of Hamburg and the Université de Nantes.
Amelie Stephanus has previously worked in historical-political youth education in Hamburg and as a student assistant for the research platform “Worlds of Contradiction” and the Institute of Anthropology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen.