I am a Marie Curie fellow working on the project EXPAND – Examining Pan-Neotropical Diasporas. My research addresses past human migrations in lowland South America, integrating archaeology, palaeoecology and computer modelling to explore the  expansion of neotropical farmers during periods of climate change in the late Holocene. I will employ agent-based modelling to simulate scenarios of climate-driven human migrations that can be compared to the empirical archaeological record.