Elke Zeller

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

Oct 2025 • Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 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. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2518974122

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

Jan 2025 • Scientific Data, Alessandro Mondanaro, Giorgia Girardi, Silvia Castiglione, Axel Timmermann, Elke Zeller, Thushara Venugopal, Carmela Serio, Marina Melchionna, Antonella Esposito, Mirko Di Febbraro, Pasquale Raia. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-04181-4

The evolving three-dimensional landscape of human adaptation

Oct 2024 • Science Advances, Elke Zeller and Axel Timmermann. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adq361

Past climate change effects on human evolution

Sep 2024 • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Axel Timmermann, Pasquale Raia, Alessandro Mondanaro, Christoph P. E. Zollikofer, Marcia Ponce de León, Elke Zeller, and Kyung-Sook Yun. DOI: 10.1038/s43017-024-00584-4

Climate shifts orchestrated hominin interbreeding events across Eurasia

Aug 2023 • Science, Jiaoyang Ruan, Axel Timmermann, Pasquale Raia, Kyung-Sook Yun, Elke Zeller, Alessandro Mondanaro, Mirko Di Febbraro, Danielle Lemmon, Silvia Castiglione, and Marina Melchionna. DOI: 10.1126/science.add4459

Human adaptation to diverse biomes over the past 3 million years

May 2023 • Science, Elke Zeller, Axel Timmermann, Kyung-Sook Yun, Pasquale Raia, Karl Stein, and Jiaoyang Ruan. DOI: 10.1126/science.abq1288

Self-Supervised Vision for Climate Downscaling

Mar 2023 • arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.09466, Karandeep Singh, Chaeyoon Jeong, Naufal Shidqi, Sungwon Park, Arjun Nellikkattil, Elke Zeller, Meeyoung Cha. DOI: 10.24963/ijcai.2024/825

Self-supervised learning for climate downscaling

Mar 2023 • BigComp, Karandeep Singh, Chaeyoon Jeong, Sungwon Park, Arjun N Babur, Elke Zeller, and Meeyoung Cha. DOI: 10.1109/BigComp57234.2023.00012

Neural Classification of Terrestrial Biomes

Mar 2023 • BigComp, Vyacheslav Shen, Dong-Kyum Kim, Elke Zeller, and Meeyoung Cha,. DOI: 10.1109/BigComp57234.2023.00035

Downscaling earth system models with deep learning

Aug 2022 • KDD ‘22, Sungwon Park, Karandeep Singh, Arjun Nellikkattil, Elke Zeller, Tung Duong Mai, and Meeyoung Cha,. DOI: 10.1145/3534678.353903

Climate effects on archaic human habitats and species successions

Apr 2022 • Nature, 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. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04600-9

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

May 2021 • Scientific Reports, In-Won Kim, Malte F. Stuecker, Axel Timmermann, Elke Zeller, Jong-Seong Kug, So-Won Park, and Jin-Soo Kim. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-89824-x

El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity

Aug 2018 • Nature, 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. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0252-6