SapienCE Organisation
SapienCE has a complex structure with many partners and a Leader Group with PI's and senior researchers. The Leader Group reports to the Board. SapienCE also benefits from advice from the Scientific Advisory Committee.

SAPIENCE ORGANISATION CHART: An overview of the structure of SapienCE.
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Illustration by Turid Hillestad Nel and Jan Heiret.
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SapienCE Board
Chair: Camilla Brautaset, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen, Camilla.Brautaset@uib.no
Members with voting rights:
- Atle.Rotevatn@uib.no, Head of Department, Department of Earth Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bergen, Norway
- Torbjørn Torsheim, Head of Department, Department of Psychosocial Science, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway
- Teemu Ryymin, Head of Department, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway
- Trond Martin Dokken, Executive Vice President, NORCE, Bergen
- Bruce Rubidge, Director of the Centre of Excellence for Palaeoscience in South Africa, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Klaus Dodds, Faculty of Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Members with observer status:
- Bruno Maureille, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS des Sciences, Université de Bordeaux, France
- Sireen El-Zaatari, Junior Research Group Leader, Department of Paleoanthopology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Secretary without voting rights:
- Christopher Stuart Henshilwood, Centre Director CoE – SapienCE, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway
SapienCE Scientific Advisory Committee
- Peter C. Kjærgaard, Museum Director and Professor of Human History at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Julia Lee Thorp, Emeritus Professor of Archaeological Science, University of Oxford, UK.
- Marta Mirazon Lahr, Professor in Human Evolutionary Biology and Director of the Duckworth Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK.
- Paul Pettit, Professor of Archaeology, Durham University, UK.
- Ralph R. Schneider, Director of Kiel Marine Science, Kiel University, Germany.
- Asifa Majid, Professor of Psychology, University of York, UK.
SapienCE Leader Group
- Christopher Stuart Henshilwood, Professor, Director, Principal Investigator (PI)
- Eystein Jansen, Professor/ Deputy Director, Principal Investigator (PI)
- Karen Louise Van Niekerk, Senior Researcher, Principal Investigator (PI)
- Carin Andersson Dahl, Research Professor, Principal Investigator (PI)
- Andrea Bender, Professor, Principal Investigator (PI)
- Simon Armitage, Professor, Principal Investigator (PI)
- Christoffer Miller, Professor, Principal Investigator (PI)
- Francesco d´Errico, Professor, Senior Scientist
- Sarah Wurz, Professor, Senior Scientist
Leader Group Secretary: Teemu Ryymin, Project Manager
Other observers:
- Early Career Scientist Representative: Elizabeth Velliky, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Archaeology
- Financial Adviser: Mari Knudsen
- Communication and media adviser: Janne-Beate Buanes Duke