On April 6th, CitiGen PI Hannes Schroeder and Matthew Collins organized an Archeology Research Day at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. The meeting brought together archaeologists and researchers from related fields from across Denmark and beyond and featured a series of talks and poster presentations of on ongoing research. For the full programme, click here.
CitiGen is an international research project that aims to study how modern and ancient genomic data are being used to shape public understandings of the past.
Headquartered at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, CitiGen involves academic partners from Iceland, Ireland, and the UK, as well as non-academic partners from the fields of genetic ancestry testing, family tree research, and public engagement with science.
The project is funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) Joint Research Programme “Uses of the Past”.