Swedish biologist specialising in evolutionary genetics. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2022 for sequencing the Neanderthal genome and discovering a previously unknown hominid. He is considered one of the founders of paleogenetics. Director of the Genetics Department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He has won several awards, including the Princess of Asturias Award in 2018. He is the author of the book «Neanderthal Man» (Gradiva, 2019), translated in partnership with the Foundation.