Zeljko Rezek (PhD University of Pennsylvania 2015) is a researcher in the Department of Paleoanthropology, CIRB, Collège de France. He co-directs field operations of the Balzan-funded research project The Biological and Cultural Evolution of Homo sapiens: Early Humans of Dar Es-Soltan 2 and Contrebandiers Caves in Morocco. He also directs research on human evolution in projects in the Levant and Egypt.