Publications

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A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia

Emily M. Pigott, Konstantina Cheshmedzhieva, Elke Zeller, Laura G. van der Sluis, Manasij Pal Chowdhury, Maddalena Gianni, Emese Végh, Thorsten Uthmeier, Victor Chabai, Marylène Patou-Mathis, Petra G. Šimková, Jana N. Voglmayr, Gerhard W. Weber, Ron Pinhasi, Axel Timmermann, Martin Kuhlwilm, Katerina Douka, and Thomas Higham

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 2025

EutherianCoP. An integrated biotic and climate database for conservation paleobiology based on eutherian mammals

Alessandro Mondanaro, Giorgia Girardi, Silvia Castiglione, Axel Timmermann, Elke Zeller, Thushara Venugopal, Carmela Serio, Marina Melchionna, Antonella Esposito, Mirko Di Febbraro, Pasquale Raia

Scientific Data, 2025

The evolving three-dimensional landscape of human adaptation

Elke Zeller and Axel Timmermann

Science Advances, 2024

Past climate change effects on human evolution

Axel Timmermann, Pasquale Raia, Alessandro Mondanaro, Christoph P. E. Zollikofer, Marcia Ponce de León, Elke Zeller, and Kyung-Sook Yun

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2024

Climate shifts orchestrated hominin interbreeding events across Eurasia

Jiaoyang Ruan, Axel Timmermann, Pasquale Raia, Kyung-Sook Yun, Elke Zeller, Alessandro Mondanaro, Mirko Di Febbraro, Danielle Lemmon, Silvia Castiglione, and Marina Melchionna

Science, 2023

Human adaptation to diverse biomes over the past 3 million years

Elke Zeller, Axel Timmermann, Kyung-Sook Yun, Pasquale Raia, Karl Stein, and Jiaoyang Ruan

Science, 2023

Climate effects on archaic human habitats and species successions

Axel Timmermann, Kyung-Sook Yun, Pasquale Raia, Jiaoyang Ruan, Alessandro Mondanaro, Elke Zeller, Christoph P. E. Zollikofer, Marcia S. Ponce de León, Danielle Lemmon, Matteo Willeit, and Andrey Ganopolski

Nature, 2022

Tropical Indo-Pacific SST influences on vegetation variability in eastern Africa

In-Won Kim, Malte F. Stuecker, Axel Timmermann, Elke Zeller, Jong-Seong Kug, So-Won Park, and Jin-Soo Kim

Scientific Reports, 2021

El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity

Axel Timmermann, Soon-Il An, Jong-Seong Kug, Fei-Fei Jin, Wenju Cai, Antonietta Capotondi, Kim M. Cobb, Matthieu Lengaigne, Michael J. McPhaden, Malte F. Stuecker, Karl Stein, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Kyung-Sook Yun, ..., Elke Zeller, and Xuebin Zhang

Nature, 2018

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Self-Supervised Vision for Climate Downscaling

Karandeep Singh, Chaeyoon Jeong, Naufal Shidqi, Sungwon Park, Arjun Nellikkattil, Elke Zeller, Meeyoung Cha

arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.09466, 2023

Self-supervised learning for climate downscaling

Karandeep Singh, Chaeyoon Jeong, Sungwon Park, Arjun N Babur, Elke Zeller, and Meeyoung Cha

BigComp, 2023

Neural Classification of Terrestrial Biomes

Vyacheslav Shen, Dong-Kyum Kim, Elke Zeller, and Meeyoung Cha,

BigComp, 2023

Downscaling earth system models with deep learning

Sungwon Park, Karandeep Singh, Arjun Nellikkattil, Elke Zeller, Tung Duong Mai, and Meeyoung Cha,

KDD '22, 2022