Dr. Jenni Sherriff

Biography

Jenni Sherriff is a physical geographer specializing in Quaternary palaeoclimate and landscape evolution, with a focus on how past environmental changes shaped hominin dispersals across Eurasia. Her research integrates stable isotope geochemistry, sedimentology, and stratigraphic analysis to reconstruct terrestrial climate and hydrological variability during the Pleistocene. She completed her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2015, where she examined environmental changes in relation to Palaeolithic dispersals in Britain. She held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Winchester, contributing to projects funded by the Leverhulme Trust and Historic England, which focused on the climatic and geomorphological drivers of human occupation in the Southern Caucasus and archaeological potential of Pleistocene deposits in the British Isles. Since joining King’s College London as a Lecturer in Physical Geography in 2021, she has been teaching courses on global climate change and environmental science. Sherriff encourages inquiries from prospective PhD students interested in the themes of Quaternary climate change, hydroclimate variability, and human-environment interactions, with particular emphasis on reconstructing past climates and understanding their implications for contemporary and future climate challenges.

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